Vive la mariée... et la libération du Kurdistan

Vive la mariée... et la libération du Kurdistan is a 1998 Franco-Kurdish comedy written and directed by Hiner Saleem. Running about 96 minutes, the film features Georges Corraface, Rona Hartner, Serge Avédikian, Stéphanie Lagarde and Emmanuelle Rivière, alongside two performers well known to Turkish audiences, Tuncel Kurtiz and Jacky Nercessian. As its title suggests, the picture weaves a wedding celebration together with the theme of Kurdish liberation, treating questions of Kurdish identity and the longing for freedom with a distinctly ironic, comic tone. Made early in Saleem's career, it stands as one of the works in which the Kurdish-born filmmaker joined French production resources to stories rooted in his own background, paving the way for his later, better-known films about Kurdistan.