SYNOPSICS
Jiyan (2002) is a Kurdish movie. Jano Rosebiani has directed this movie. Kurdo Galali,Pirshang Berzinji,Choman Hawrami,Enwer Shexani are the starring of this movie. It was released in 2002. Jiyan (2002) is considered one of the best Drama,Romance,War movie in India and around the world.
Five years following the infamous chemical and biological bombing of Halabja, Diyari, a Kurdish/ American good Samaritan, returns to his homeland to build an orphanage in what is left of Halabja. He meets Jiyan, a ten-year old orphan and a survivor of the chemical attack, doomed to live with a burn scar covering most of her right cheek.. A strong bond between the two ensues and later he names his orphanage after her. During the course of his stay in Halabja, Diyari meets a colorful bunch of townsfolk, many of whom remain physically and/or psychologically marked with the effects of the chemical agents. Among them is Jiyan's only living relative, Shérco, a twelve-year old who has also lost his family to the poison gas. While Shérco dreams of marrying her one day, Jiyan dreams of seeing flowers, a picture of which she finds on the back of a magazine. In addition to building the orphanage, Diyari brings a spark of hope and happiness to Shérco's and Jiyan's lives. However, this affair is ...
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Masterful storytelling and a very moving film
This film made me both laugh and cry back and forth. The music and the imagery are poetic and enchanting. here is a film that deals with one of the most tragic events of our time and yet makes you walk away with hope. It puts us in cozy closeness with a people most repressed and most ignored - the Kurds, whom it would be hard to forget after seeing Jiyan. I give it two thumbs high up.
A beautiful and at times harsh and funny movie.Recommended.
A beautiful and at times harsh and funny movie proving that you can still make a simple and honest story without the hollywood embelishments forced on us by the mainstream movie industry. The director has a gift rare these days. This movie should be mandatory viewing for all those making political decisions on the lives of the kurdish and arabic people.
A virtually untold story.
Jano Rosebiani depicts a tragic, yet wonderful story of rebirth with Jiyan! As an American watching the film, the passion and bravery of the Kurdish people were borough to life in a very special way! This film was outstanding in every aspect, from it's hum-ours moments, to the heartfelt sadness of the aftermath of the Chemical Attack by Saddam Hussein in 1985. What makes this film special is the extraordinary way Jano Rosebiani portrays hope, while surrounded by hopelessness, as well as an intimate understanding of just what a proud people the Kurds are! Jiyan is a loving, funny, sad, and intellectual movie worthy of watching! It will make you feel alive!
Weak story line mars portrayal of chemical-bombed Kurdish town
Jiyan [Life in the Kurdish language] portrays a Kurdish town five years after an Iraqi chemical weapons attack has left 5000 dead and more maimed or scarred. Jiyan is also the name of one of the main characters, a girl who has terrible chemical burn scars on one side of her face. A hospital scene shows many more scarred victims. Writer-director-producer-editor Jano Rosebiani does a good job showing the ways of life in a place unfamiliar to the outside world. His story is one of hope more than despair. Unfortunately, it's not much of a story either. The main character, a Kurdish-born American, comes to build a new orphanage. He meets the locals. The orphanage gets built. There's no conflict, beyond a lone fundamentalist railing against a old man for making music, and not even much politics, beyond offering the view that Saddam Hussein is evil. As such, Life seems fairly dull.