Sisters Apart (2021)
Rojda, a native of Iraqi Kurdistan and a soldier in the German army, travels to a refugee camp in Greece where she manages to meet her mother, who has bad news about her sister Dilan.
Top billed cast
Almila BağrıaçıkRojda Xani
Zübeyde BulutBerivan
Maryam BoubaniFerhat Xani
Christoph LetkowskiAlex Breidmeier- Gonca de HaasDilan
Niels-Bruno SchmidtFuhrmann
Yiannis NiarrosOfficer Dimitri
Lucas PrisorTom- Kostas BazasOfficer Costas
- Ceylan BulusRozerin Mafakhery
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