| My Sweet Pepper Land | |
| Director: | Huner Saleem |
| Producer: | Marc Bordure Robert Guédiguian |
| Starring: | Golshifteh Farahani Korkmaz Arslan |
| Cinematography: | Pascal Auffray |
| Editing: | Clémence Samson Sophie Reine Juliette Haubois |
| Distributor: | Memento Films |
| Runtime: | 95 minutes |
| Country: | France Germany Iraq |
| Language: | Kurdish |
My Sweet Pepper Land is a 2013 Kurdish-language internationally co-produced drama film directed and co-written by Huner Saleem.[1] It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival.[2] It was nominated in the 7th annual Asia Pacific Screen Awards for Achievement in Directing for Huner Saleem and Best Performance by an Actress for Golshifteh Farahani.[3]
In a remote village in Iraqi Kurdistan lives the Kurdish patriot Baran who since recently serves as a policeman. He cannot help but provoke the local villain Aziz Aga and finds himself supported by an attractive lady named Govend who works as a teacher.