| Xalko | |
| Director: | Sami Mermer Hind Benchekroun |
| Producer: | Sami Mermer Hind Benchekroun |
| Cinematography: | Sami Mermer |
| Studio: | Les Films de la tortue |
| Distributor: | Les Films du 3 Mars |
| Runtime: | 100 minutes |
| Country: | Canada |
| Language: | Kurdish Turkish French |
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]
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]