Red Heart
HD - 2011 - Norway / Iraq - 78 min - Color - Drama
Red Heart
Original title: Red Heart
A film by Halkawt Mustafa
The movie is a stirring love drama about two teenagers battle to be together, in a land where your own choice of spouse cannot be taken for granted. Shirin and Soran are secretly sweethearts, waiting for the right occasion to ask for their parent’s permission to get married. When Shirin’s mother dies, her father seeks to find a new wife. His chosen one has one demand for this marriage: Shirin has to marry her son. To be together, Soran and Shirin has evidently no other choice but to escape. Life on the run is however anything but easy. Shirin must manage the city life alone when Soran is sent off to prison – not without risk, in a land where a young woman without a father or a husband by her side is virtually considered to be cold prey … Shirin is forced to trust random strangers to manage life without Soran, something that has fatal consequences. Is the love between Shirin and Soran strong enough to handle the brutal reality?
Original language: Kurdish
Produced by: Egil Ødegård, Anders Graham, Halkawt Mustafa, Filmhuset Produksjoner AS
Festivals:
Montréal World Cinema Film Festival, Canada 2011 / Kaunas International Film Festival, Lithuania 2011 / Doha International Film Festival, Qatar 2011 – Official competition / Seville European Film Festival, Spain 2011 / Pune international film Festival, India 2012 / Middle Eastern Film Festival Edinburgh, UK 2012 / Festival International du Film d'Amour de Mons, Belgium 2012 – official competition / Rencontres internationales du Cinéma de Patrimoine et du Film restauré de Vincennes, France 2012 / Scandinavian Filmadaptations Festival “Through a glass, Poland 2012 / Gulf Film Festival 2012 – Dubai / Minneapolis Film Festival 2012 – USA / Showroom Sheffield, UK 2012 / Beijing International Film Festival, China 2012 / Festival de cine Euro-Africain, Tchad 2012 / ASWAT: Contemporary Arab Cinema, USA 2012 / FilmForum Zadar International Film Festival, Croatia 2012 / Misr International Film Festival , Egypt 2012 / Understanding New Middle East Cinema, USA 2012
Awards:
Association of the Foreign Press in France prize & Cinema students prize : Rencontres internationales du Cinéma de Patrimoine et du Film restauré de Vincennes, France 2012
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Halkawt Mustafa
Halkawt Mustafa (26) is born where the film is shot - in Kurdistan in the north of Iraq. He and his family moved to Norway in the year 2000, and he is now a Norwegian citizen. Red Heart is his first feature film. The film is a Norwegian/Iraqi (Kurdish) co-production, with Filmhuset in Norway as the main producer. The film premiered all across Norway on the 29th of April. The Norwegian press loves the work of the young first-time director: Dagbladet wrote: “He has flair for short and powerful movie moments, as the strong end of the picture ...” DN says; “And at such a young director with commitment, this is hopefully just the beginning of a career.”
