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Vodka Lemon directed by Hiner Saleem
October 25, 2009 7:30PM
NYU CANTOR CENTER
Set in a remote Kurdish village in Armenia Vodka Lemon tells the gentle love story of an ex-army officer, and a vodka-lemon stand barmaid, who meet during their daily trips to visit their spouse’s graves. Director Hiner Saleem intercuts the love story with surrealistic vignettes and dark humor to reveal a bittersweet portrait of people in precarious times.
Post film Q&A with director Hiner Saleem.
Filmmaker's Biography
Saleem was born in March of 1964 in the town of Aqrah in Iraqi Kurdistan. At the age of 17 he left Iraq for Italy where he attended university. After the first Gulf War in 1992 Saleem went undercover in order to film the living conditions of Iraqi Kurds, showing his footage later on at the Venice Film Festival. The director made his first film in 1998, titled Vive la marie… et la liberation du Kurdistan. In 2000 Saleem released his second film, Passeurs de rêves, and came out with his third film, Vodka Lemon, in 2003, which won the “San Marco Prize” at the Venice Film Festival. Saleem has also published his memoirs, titled My Father’s Rifle, available in French and English.
Credits
Directed by Hiner Saleem
Written by Lei Dinety, Hiner Saleem
Adaptation: Pauline Gouzenne
Executive Producer: Fabrice Guez
Line Producer: Michael Loro
Associate Producer: Tiziana Soudani
Cinematographer: Christophe Pollock
Edit: Dora Mantzoros
Production Design: Kamal Hamarash
Production Director: Margot Luneau
Assistant Directors: Guillaume Bonnier, Christine Marrou
Sound: Michael Filippi, Christian Fontaine, Yves-Marie Omnes, Frédéric Ullmann
Original Music by Michael Korb, Roustam Sadoyan
Cast: Romen Avinian, Lala Sarkissian, Ivan Franek…
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