Presented at the 2023 International Film Festival in Toronto, the film focuses on three teenagers who live at a refugee center in a remote region of Norway. They face deportation once they turn eighteen. It is a daring film, unusually set in the frozen northern reaches of Norway, about a group of friends trying to escape a suffocating reality. The three friends devise a plan to escape over the mountains to a world where their dreams can come true. But when one of them falls in love, their plan begins to unravel.

The film won the awards for Best Director and Best Cinematography (Lukasz Zamaro) at the 2024 Duhok International Film Festival, as well as the FIPRESCI Prize and a Special Mention for Hisham Zaman in the Kurdish Feature Film Competition.

After the screening, a film colloquium will be held with Elena Vázquez Núñez, a cultural manager and criminal lawyer specializing in human rights and migration. This colloquium will focus on some of the issues raised by the film, most notably the topic of migrants, refugees and unaccompanied minors. The event will be introduced by Karim Hauser, Casa Árabe’s Culture Coordinator.

Hisham Zaman (Kirkuk, 1975) is a Norwegian film director and screenwriter of Iraqi Kurdish origin. He graduated from the Norwegian Film School in Lillehammer in 2004. His films focus on the stories and internal dilemmas of characters united by the common thread of their experience as refugees, exploring human themes such as love, acceptance, sacrifice, revenge, loyalty and honor. Zaman has co-written several of his screenplays with Norwegian crime novelist Kjell Ola Dahl. His breakthrough film, Bawke, won over 40 national and international awards. He has also twice won the Dragon Award for Best Nordic Film, being the only filmmaker to receive this distinction two years in a row