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My Sweet Pepper Land
My Sweet Pepper Land
8.1
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335 Ratings

MY SWEET PEPPER LAND

Directed by Hiner Saleem
Iraq, France, 2013
Drama

Synopsis

Baran, a Kurdish independence war hero, accepts a position as police commissioner in a lawless village at the borders of Iran and Turkey. There he meets Govend, a young woman who has come to work as the teacher in the newly opened school despite her twelve brothers’ hostility to the idea.

Synopsis

Baran, a Kurdish independence war hero, accepts a position as police commissioner in a lawless village at the borders of Iran and Turkey. There he meets Govend, a young woman who has come to work as the teacher in the newly opened school despite her twelve brothers’ hostility to the idea.

Our take

A quietly anarchic humor pervades this Kurdish western about a lawless region left in ruins following the fall of Sadam Hussein. Starring Golshifteh Farahani, My Sweet Pepperland is a rambunctious tale of love and retribution, where the fight for law and order constantly rubs up against chaos.