A documentary exploring the “dengbej” musical heritage of the singers, poets and storytellers from Northern Syria’s Rojava region. Featuring a stunning scenery of poetic landscapes, the film is interlaced with stories of Kurdish and Assyrian songs that narrate the long history of love and suffering of this semi-autonomous region. With a pluriethnic population of Kurds, Assyrians and Armenians, witness a new generation of storytellers from Komina Filma Rojava film collective, as they pay tribute to the men and women keeping the stories, dance, heritage and lives of Rojava’s people alive through their songs.
Original Title: Darên bi tenê
International Title: The Lonely Tree
Director: Sêro Hindî
Duration: 43’
Original Language: Kurdish, Arabic, Armenian, Assyrian
Gender: Documentary
Production Country and Year: Northern and Eastern Syria Federation-Rojava, 2017
Production: Rojava Film Commune
Music: Mehmoud Berazi
The Director
Sêro Hindî (Qamishlo, 1983) is a director, actor, scriptwriter and teacher from Qamishlo, Syria. He makes short and feature-length documentaries based on the culture and lyrical heritage of the present-day surroundings of ancient Mesopotamia and is one of the founders of Komina Film a Rojava (Rojava Film Commune).
Filmography
- Who Knows Who I am? – 25’ – 2010
- Maco is cold – 8’ – 2014
- Çîroka bajarên wêrankirî (Stories of Destroyed Cities) – 50’ – 2016
- The Bad Knife – 50’ – 2016
- Darên bi tenê (The Lonely Tree) – 42’ – 2017
