DÛR

Overview

A Kurdish-Syrian immigrant in Germany; caught between his job caring for an elderly German woman and his mother's WhatsApp voice notes as she tries to send him a taste of the homeland, he finds himself lost."

An elderly care agency in Germany assigns Khalil, a Kurdish Syrian immigrant, to care for a lonely German woman in her home in Essen; he finds himself submerged in his mother’s voice recordings coming via WhatsApp from the mountains of Afrin, as she describes the details of making 'Makdous' and her insistence on finding a way to send it to him despite the wartime siege.