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By Joanne Hilty
Rappahannock News Writer
“A Time for Drunken Horses” supplies faces to go with news stories about the Kurdish peoples of Iran. The Kurds are members of a pastoral and agricultural people who inhabit a plateau region in adjoining parts of Iran, Turkey, Iraq and Syria.
Their lands to this day are . protected against Saddam Hussein’s force by a no-fly zone enforced by the United States. The movie, however, is not about politics. It is about survival.
“A Time for Drunken Horses” will be shown at The Theatre on Gay Street in Washington at 8 p.m. on Saturday, July 21.
The co-Winner of the Camera d’Or Prize at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival, Bahman Ghobadi’s poignant neo-realist story depicts the courage of orphaned children who are forced to support themselves in a world where children and animals endure the harshest of conditions. Previously a taboo subject, the hardships faced by Kurds have been documented in some recent Aims, but this film, shot in the Kurdish director’s native village with a compelling cast of non-professionals, is the first insider’s account.
Ayoub, age 12, has become the head of a family of six children, including a severely handicapped brother, Madi, desperately in need of an immediate operation. Struggling to provide any way he can, he is compelled to join a dangerous smuggling operation crossing treacherous snowcovered mountains over the mine-littered border into Iraq.
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