
13 Sep 2000

A Time for Drunken Horses
After their father dies, a family of five children are forced to survive on their own in a Kurdish village on the border of Iran and Iraq.

Kurdish-Iranian poet Sahel has just been released from a thirty-year prison sentence in Iran. Now the one thing keeping him going is the thought of finding his wife, who thinks he's been dead for over twenty years.

Sahel

Mina

Young Sahel

Akbar Rezai

Ebru (Female Pimp)

Daughter

Driver
Villager

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