House without Roof | Haus ohne Dach

HOUSE WITHOUT ROOF is about the journey of the siblings LIYA, JAN and ALAN who were born in the Kurdish area of Iraq and grown up in Germany. The three of them want to fulfill their mother`s last wish to bury her in her home village beside her husband who got killed in the war under the Saddam Hussein regime. On their nerve-wracking Kurdish-odyssey, they are not only faced with their Kurdish extended family that does not accept the last wish of their mother but particularly with their own matters. In recent years they distanced from each other – everybody runs his own life – and whenever they are holding talks, they are mostly based on reproaches. In parallel with the run of their journey, it is noticeable that in their home country the dimension of an awful conflict, that nobody can surmise, is heading for disaster.

Cast & Crew

Production: mîtosfilm
Co-production: Essence Film, SWR, arte, Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg
Producers: Mehmet Aktaş, Igor Dovgal, Jana Raschke
Cast: Mina Özlem Sağdıç, Sasun Sayan, Murat Seven, Wedad Sabri, Ahmet Zirek
Screenplay: Soleen Yusef
DOP: Stephan Burchardt
Editor: Hannes Bruun
Sound design: Dominik Leube
Music: Paradox Paradise – John Gürtler, Jan Miserre, Lars Voges
Production Design: Jalal Saedpanah, Jurek Kuttner

Director Soleen Yusef
Country Germany, KRG
Year 2016
Length 117 min
Language German, Kurdish with English subtitles