WAITING FOR THE RAIN

A Kurdish Love Story

By Kawa Akrawi

Waiting For The Rain is a pure Kurdish love story, taking place in the heart of Kurdistan, Hawler. The film with its dynamic characters and cinematic vision will capture the heart of most people at all age.

As we have mentioned earlier this film is using its cinematic technique to get the peoples attention, and then face them with their own daily reality.

The base for all the social problems in Kurdistan are some how connected to the feudal system, In this film we presents a love story that seems to be possible at the first look, but when we get closer to their story and the circumstances around it, we feel the hopelessness of their love.

Azad try to give secretly, a love letter to Nazrin who he is deeply in love with, but by mistake he puts it in Beritans Book. The letter is exposed by their school teacher, Beritan knows she will be punished by her family, even if they find out the truth, she has no way out but a fetal and horrible suicide. We show the consequences of a mistake, and raise the question of what if it was real, what will she do then?

And that question is answered by another question, which is the Azad and Nesrin love story and their attempt to run a way.  Azad who wants to be an architect, is felt with guilt, and frightened that he will become nothing then a worker, like his father. So he plan to take his love and leave Kurdistan. Nazrin, is worried that she will be taken out of school, because what happened to Beritan, and she will be married a way to her cousin, so she accepts Azads solution, to leave the country.

We then led the two lover to the direction of Mamosta Sor the ideologist who ones believed in changing to a better live, but have done nothing then talking about it theoretically. We create this situation where Mamosta Sor is working as a taxi driver beside his teaching job, and now he is faced with this run a way story that he doesn't know how to escape from. He is forced to make a decision. Leave them and go, or help them to find a solution.

With this love story we are presenting different problems and their sources.  We are very sure that such a film will be a starting point for future ideas.