Xalko

Xalko is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Sami Mermer and Hind Benchekroun and released in 2018.[1] The film profiles Mermer's own birthplace of Xalko, a Kurdish village in Turkey where the women are preserving Kurdish tradition after most of the men have left as refugees from the Kurdish–Turkish conflict.[2]

Xalko
Film poster
Directed bySami Mermer
Hind Benchekroun
Produced bySami Mermer
Hind Benchekroun
CinematographySami Mermer
Edited byRené Roberge
Production
company
Les Films de la tortue
Distributed byLes Films du 3 Mars
Release date
  • November 9, 2018 (2018-11-09) (RIDM)
Running time
100 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguagesKurdish
Turkish
French

The film premiered in November 2018 at the Montreal International Documentary Festival.[3] It won the Prix Iris for Best Documentary Film at the 22nd Quebec Cinema Awards in 2020,[4] and Mermer received a nomination for Best Cinematography in a Documentary.[5]

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