Kurdish director wins 1st Prize in Munich Film Festival

Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) The Kurdish director Mano Khalil has won the first prize for his file Taste of Honey” in the Film Festival in Munich in Germany. The film, which will be presented to the cinema screens in the coming months, is a joint Swiss, German and French production and has got the 1st prize in the Film Festival in Switzerland.

The duration of the film 107 minutes, shot in HD technology and will be displayed through the new world cinema system (DSP), and it’s in a Kurdish and German languages.

The Film is about the life of a Kurdish beekeepers from the Kurdistan of Turkey who lost everything in the war after he was one of the largest producers of bee honey in Turkey and Kurdistan and he lost not only his job and his property, but his wife and children as well and becomes hunted in the mountains until he reaches to Switzerland as a refugee and start all over again keeping bees, this time in the Alps.