The Heavy Burden
AVDEL feeds his family with the salary of his old donkey, BOZO, who works in the waste department of the city of Mardin in Turkey.It is also home to his nephew, SALIH, who fled Syria because of the war.After BOZO’s “retirement”, Avdel must find a younger ass to continue to earn his salary.
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AVDEL feeds his family with the salary of his old donkey, BOZO, who works in the waste department of the city of Mardin in Turkey. It is also home to his nephew, SALIH, who fled Syria because of the war. After BOZO’s “retirement”, Avdel must find a younger ass to continue to earn his salary. So traumatized by the war Salih returns to Syria to recover his.
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- Release date
- Sep 17, 2019
- Runtime
- 0h 17m
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- Language
- Arabic, Kurdish
- Country
- Turkey
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