Vodka Lemon | |
Starring: | Romen Avinian Lala Sarkissian |
Director: | Hiner Saleem |
Producer: | Fabrice Guez |
Distributor: | New Yorker Films |
Runtime: | 84 minutes |
Country: | France Italy Switzerland Armenia |
Language: | Armenian Kurdish Russian French |
Budget: | $2,0 M |
Vodka Lemon (Kurdish: Vodka Lîmon, Armenian: Վոդկա լիմոն, Russian: Водка Лимон) is a 2003 internationally co-produced comedy-drama film directed and co-written by the Iraqi–Kurdish director Huner Saleem.
The film is set in a Yazidi village in Armenia, still suffering economically from the Soviet Union's collapse. Hamo, a widower with three sons, visits his wife's grave every day. In the graveyard, he meets Nina, a widow who works at a local roadside stand called Vodka Lemon which is about to close down. Both are penniless, yet start an unexpected relationship which revitalises them.