Rojda, a Kurdish member of the German army, sets out clandestinely to reunite her family, dispersed by Middle Eastern wars.
Sister Apart
Rojda Xani (Almila Bagriacik) is a young Kurdish-Iraqi woman who has lived in Germany since childhood and now serves in the German army. She traces her mother (Maryam Boubani) to a Greek refugee camp, and learns that her sister Dilal (Gonca de Haas) went home after seeing her mother on to a people-smuggler’s boat. In Germany, mother and daughter get to know each other after their long separation. Then Rojda volunteers to go to Erbil, in Iraqi Kurdistan, on a deployment to train female Kurdish soldiers to fight ISIS. But no-one must discover her real mission: to find her missing sister. A film about cultural complications, family loyalties and war, written by its Greek director.
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