DIE SCHWALBE

DIE SCHWALBE

DIE SCHWALBE

Director: Mano Khalil
Feature film | CH | 2016
102 min | Dolby 5.1

50th Hof International Film Festival
2016

In search of her roots, the young Swiss girl Mira takes off on a journey to Iraq. There, she is confronted with armed force, arbitrariness, and vigilante justice, but also with love. Accompanied by a German-speaking Kurd named Ramo, Mira tries to find her lost father and travels through a broken and divided country. In the raw beauty of the vast landscape, Mira and Ramo get closer. But the dark past and the current political situaton catch up with them on their journey through this country which is one of the hotspots of the conflict-ridden region …