A Silent Traveler

Debuting Iraq-born, Netherlands-based writer/director Ibrahim Selman starts out on docu ground, with a voiceover explaining his objectives and the film’s stand-in location, and recalling Kurdistan before the advent of war. He then shifts into narrative mode, with glimpses of life in a mountain village caught in the conflict between Iraqi military authorities and peshmergas (guerrilla freedom fighters).

• Ibrahim SelmanScreenplay
• Rolf OrthelScreenplay
• Hugo HeinenScreenplay
• Ibrahim SelmanDirector

• Bangin AbdulkadirAzid
• Said AliTaho
• Umet AliMoho
• Abdulkadir YousifSilo
• Halima SadikKurde
• Walid HadjiSimko