Rêtaw Film

A man tries to meet death by the tree where playful children come and go.

As Lake Ûrmîye dries into salt plains, the once-fertile village of Dizaj Dol faces ecological collapse. Amid dying crops and vanished livelihoods, Kurdish and Azari neighbours struggle to save their land, turning to faith and shared resilience against nature’s relentless devastation.

Zara is a working Kurdish woman, who lost both her national ID card and birth certificate. She goes to a civil registry office to get them again because she needs them for an employment application, but the staff tells her that she has lost her fingerprints and needs to give her hands a break for a couple of weeks. Her employment application has a strict deadline and she can’t wait that long. That’s when she tries to find a different solution.

It’s midnight and Jiyar is driving in the local route of the Sawmill factory where he works when his wife wants him to come home in a video call because she's afraid of wolves howling outside and can't make it through nights alone. But if Jiyar got back he'd his job loose…

Halime is nursing her elderly father who is spending the last days of his life and taking care of their cow that is about to give birth, will her father who is waiting for the cow to give birth see the calf?