Archive of films Exam / Ezmûn
Germany / Iraqi Kurdistan / Qatar
2021, 89 min
Section:
Crystal Globe Competition
Year: 2021
If Rojin doesn’t pass the university entrance exam, she will have to go through with an arranged marriage. If she does get in, she will be free. This is the pronouncement of her father, the head of the family. Rojin’s older sister Shilan tries to help her as best she can, yet every well-meant action draws the young woman deeper into a web of deceit and lies. An absorbing drama and daring probe into the theme of a woman’s right to her own life.
Synopsis
If Rojin doesn’t pass the university entrance exam, she will have to go through with an arranged marriage. If she does get in, she will be free. For Rojin’s older sister Shilan, who is suffering at the hands of a despotic husband, the idea that she might not get through is inconceivable, so she makes every effort to ensure Rojin succeeds. There is no way she will allow her sister to meet the same fate as her. Yet every well-meant action just brings further problems… Set in war-torn Iraqi Kurdistan, Shawkat Amin Korki’s drama boldly examines a theme deliberately ignored in Middle Eastern cinema – the subject of women’s rights: their entitlement not only to education, but also to make decisions about their own lives.
Anna Kořínek
About the director

Shawkat Amin Korki (1973, Zakho, Iraqi Kurdistan). Filmography: Crossing the Dust (Parinawa la ghobar, 2006), Kick Off (2009), Memories on Stone (Bîranînen li ser kevirî, 2014), The Exam (Ezmûn, 2021).
Contacts
ArtHood Entertainment GmbH
Quedlinburger Strasse 11, 10589, Berlin
Germany
Tel: +49 302 556 1165
E-mail: [email protected]
Publicity contact
Alexander Masche
Tel: +49 176 223 368 09
E-mail: [email protected]
About the film
Color, DCP
World premiere
Section: | Crystal Globe Competition |
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Director: | Shawkat Amin Korki |
Screenplay: | Shawkat Amin Korki, Mohamed Reza Gohari |
Dir. of Photography: | Adib Sobhani |
Music: | Mehmûd Berazî |
Editor: | Ebraim Saeedi |
Art Director: | Jalal Saed Panah |
Producer: | Mehmet Aktaş |
Production: | mîtosfilm |
Coproduction: | Masti Films |
Cast: | Avan Jamal, Vania Salar, Hussein Hassan, Hoshyar Nerwayi, Kawa Kadir, Shwan Attoof |
Sales: | ArtHood Entertainment GmbH |
Contact: | Alexander Masche |
Guests

Shawkat Amin Korki
Film Director

Avan Jamal
Actress

Vania Salar
Actress

Mehmet Aktas
Producer

Lea Drescher
Producer

Roj Hajo
Producer

Musa Aktas
Investor

Nuka Bäumker
Other

Alexander Masche
Sales Agent