Jamil Rostami

Jamil Rostami

54 (1971-04-21)
Sanandaj, Kurdistan, Iran

Jamil Rostami is a Kurdish film director & writer. In 2002 he made his first short film titled The Trouble of Being a Boy in Kurdish, which was screened in 24 domestic and international Festivals and was awarded several prizes.

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Requiem of Snow 2005 (6.2)

People are praying for rainfall... a Land parched in drought... the illusion of snow... Rozhin is engulfed in reveries of flight from an undesirable marriage... Rozhin seeks support from a stranger... and this is not the end of the story.
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The Agony of People 2007 (4.2)

Sulaymaniah, Iraqi Kurdistan, in the 1940s. When his wife Kaleh goes into labor, her husband Jwamer runs to get the midwife. By ill luck, he runs into the middle of a political demonstration and is seriously wounded and arrested by mistake as the ringleader. After a rigged trial, Jwamer is sentenced to ten years in prison. He serves his sentence and, as soon as he is set free, goes in search of his wife and child.
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The Trouble of Being a Boy 2002 (6)

A young boy goes outside to search for a rooster that has been switched to a neighbor's. and upon his return, an unwelcome guest awaits him.