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Well

Well

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Status

Released

Release Date

May 16, 2018

Runtime

1h 2m

Genres

Documentary, History

User Score

70%

Original Title

Bîr

Production Companies

Mesopotamia Cinema Collective, Yapım 13

Director

Veysî Altay

Budget

$55,500

Description

In the 1990s many people in Kurdistan were taken into custody and interrogated under torture; their killers disposed of the bodies by throwing them out of helicopters, or burying them in acid-filled wells. Thousands were murdered/disappeared by paramilitary forces—such as Jitem and Hizbul-Kontra—that were financed and supported by the state, though they have always stuck to the line: “We didn’t do it.” The documentary looks at the case of seven people, including four children, who were disappeared from the town of Kerboran [Dargeçit] in 1995, and tells the story of their families’ tireless search for their bones