Vodka Lemon is a 2003

2003 in film

The year 2003 in film involved some significant events. Releases of sequels took place with movies like The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, 2 Fast 2 Furious, Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle, The Matrix Reloaded, The Matrix Revolutions, Pokémon Heroes, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines,...

 film

Film

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 directed

Film director

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 by the Kurdish

Kurdish people

The Kurdish people, or Kurds , are an Iranian people native to the Middle East, mostly inhabiting a region known as Kurdistan, which includes adjacent parts of Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey...

 director Hiner Saleem

Hiner Saleem

Huner Saleem, also transliterated as Huner Salim, , is an Iraqi–Kurdish film director. He was born in the town of Aqrah in Iraqi Kurdistan. He left Iraq at the age of 17, and soon made his way to Italy, where he completed school and attended university. Later on, he moved to France where he lives now...

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Plot

The story is set in a Yazidi

Yazidi

The Yazidi are members of a Kurdish religion with ancient Indo-Iranian roots. They are primarily a Kurdish-speaking people living in the Mosul region of northern Iraq, with additional communities in Transcaucasia, Armenia, Turkey, and Syria in decline since the 1990s – their members emigrating to...

 Kurdish

Kurdish people

The Kurdish people, or Kurds , are an Iranian people native to the Middle East, mostly inhabiting a region known as Kurdistan, which includes adjacent parts of Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey...

 village in Armenia

Armenia

Armenia , officially the Republic of Armenia , is a landlocked mountainous country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia...

, still suffering economically from the Soviet collapse. Hamo, a Kurdish widower with three sons, visits his wife's grave everyday. In the graveyard, he meets Nina, a widow who works in a local bar named Vodka Lemon which is about to close down. Both are penniless, yet start an unexpected relationship which revitalizes them.

Awards

1. San Marco Prize, Best Film Award, Venice Film Festival
   Venice Film Festival
   The Venice International Film Festival is the oldest international film festival in the world. Founded by Count Giuseppe Volpi in 1932 as the "Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica", the festival has since taken place every year in late August or early September on the island of the...
   
   , 2003.
2. Jury Award, Feature Film/Best Actor, Newport Beach Film Festival, 2004.
3. Grand Prize, Jury Prize and Best Photography, Mons International Festival of Love Films, 2004.
4. Best Film 2003 nominee - Bangkok Film Festival, 2004

Cast

• Romen Avinian
• Lala Sarkissian
• Gagik Sargsyan
• Ruzan Mesropyan
• Zahal Karielachvili
• Armen Marutyan
• Astrik Avaguian
• Ivan Franek
  Ivan Franek
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Crew

• Director : Hiner Saleem
• Producer : Fabrice Guez
• Line Producer : Michel Loro
• Associate Producer : Rosanna Seregni - Titiana Soudani
• Music : Michel Korb
• DP : Christophe Pollock
• Ivan Franek