The Heavy Burden
2019, Kurdish. Directed by Yılmaz Özdil.
AVDEL feeds his family with the salary of his old donkey, BOZO, who works in the waste department of the city of Mardin in Turkey. It is also home to his nephew, SALIH, who fled Syria because of the war. After BOZO’s “retirement”, Avdel must find a younger ass to continue to earn his salary. So traumatized by the war Salih returns to Syria to recover his.
- Runtime
- 0h 17m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- Kurdish
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The Heavy Burden is streaming on ShortsTV in India.
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- Released
- 17 September 2019
- Original title
- Barê Giran
- Country
- Turkey
- Written by
- Yılmaz Özdil
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The Heavy Burden runs 17 minutes (0h 17m).
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Who directed The Heavy Burden?
The Heavy Burden (2019) was directed by Yılmaz Özdil and stars Nazmi Kırık, Mehmet Ali Arpa, Engin Emre Değer.