News Release:
One Candles, Two Candles... wraps principle photography Dec. 6, 2010
Principle photography has been completed on Jano Rosebiani’s One Candle, Two Candles.
Set in a fictional town of Kurdava (shot in Akré, Kurdistan), One Candle, Two Candles is a dark comedy that deals with the issue of forced marriage and honor-related crimes against women.
Gloomy as the premise may seem, the brighter side of the Kurdish small town reality makes for a counterbalance and implies hope rather than despair for a resolution. One Candle, Two Candles is populated with colorful characters, including a few misfits with eyebrow-raising sense of humor, and intertwined subplots in the fashion of Italian neorealist cinema.
The film was lensed by Hemîd Qewamî and starrs Enwer Shékhani (Haji Hemmo), Katrin Enders (Viyan), Hisên Hesen (Dino, the town’s idiot), Gulbahar Kevcu (Zozan), Kurdo Galali (Beko), Mina Inrahimzadeh (Kitan the ball-buster), Perwer Tariq (Botan), and Murad Miqdad (Dilovan). Also starring Wehîd Behdînî, Mehdi Ismail, Rizgar Rashid, Ismail Salih, Dewen Newzad, Tara Ebdilrehman, Jamil Zikri, Haider Behjet, Elî Cuma, Ehmed Hesen, Nalîn Kobany, Gulnara Pashé, Dilsoz Maweti, Neshwan M. Salih, Nafi Juma, Beritan Yeldistan, Dastan Izzedin and Mustafa Reuf.
One Candle, Two Candles... is an Evini Films production supported by the Cinema Department of KRG's Ministry of Culture and Youth. Written and directed by jano Rosebiani, produced by Jano Rosebiani and Anwer Shékhani.
Editing to resume in January in California.
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News Release:
Chaplin wraps principle photography
Sept. 12, 2009
Principle photography has been completed on Jano Rosebiani’s new film, "Chaplin of the Mountains" in Southern Kurdistan. Starring a collection of actors from Los Angeles, New York, Vancouver and Berlin, “Chaplin…” is the first English language film to be shot in the region.
“Chaplin of the Mountains” is a character-driven intellectual road movie that explores the Kurdish mountains and culture. The story revolves around Nazé (Estelle Bajou), a Kurdish/French woman in search of her Kurdish roots. She hooks up with all American David (Zack Gold) and Kurdish/American Alan (Bennett Viso), two fresh out of film school Americans who screen Charlie Chaplin films in remote mountain villages. Guided by local TV star, Reboir (Kurdo Galali) and aided by local journalist Shireen (Taies Farzan) who dreams of going to the West, they embark on a journey across the rugged mountains in search of Nazé’s village. However, it turns out the village in question was leveled during
the 1987 Anfal genocide and its population was perished, save for Mam Choly (Enwer Shekhani), an invalid elderly who refuses to leave the ruins and who turns out to be Nazé’s grandfather.
"Chaplin of the Mountains" was written by Rosebiani in two weeks and was shot on a shoestring budget in 25 days in July. Rosebiani is now editing the film in California where he lives.
