BEYOND THE MIND
Genre
Drama
Running time
17 minutes
Year
2024
Language
Kurdish
Subtitle
English
Country
Iraq
Director
Lanya Nooralddin
Bio
Producer
Lanya Nooralddin, Karzan Abdalla, Hadeel Lawi
Cast
Azhdar Sazgar
Scriptwriter
Lanya Nooralddin
Mekhak, a compassionate and capable donkey, lives with a family in a village. His owner, however, believing Mekhak to be useless, decides to abandon him on a distant, frightening mountain. Despite the dangers, Mekhak, full of hope, returns to the family, longing to live with them again. He makes great efforts, yet the family repeatedly rejects him. In the end, Mekhak makes a profound sacrifice to stay, but this only leads to a more tragic fate.
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