Rojîn, a Kurdish woman living in Finland, discovers she doesn’t know everything about her complicated past. A resonant drama reflecting on the Kurdish experience of dispossession and exile.

Kurdish-born Rojîn has spent almost all of her life far away from home, in Helsinki, where she works as an anaesthesiologist at a hospital. Now 40, the day-to-day business of human existence isn’t getting any easier: her relationship with her 12-year-old daughter Azad is increasingly strained, and marital life with her husband Ferhat grows tense. Azad doesn’t know that she’s adopted – just as Rojîn doesn’t know the full story about her past, but will find out when her father Nîzam visits from Sweden.

Filmmaker Erol Mintaş paints with tan, charcoal and sapphire hues, restrained gestures and sober Nordic light in his second fiction feature. Earth Song not only reflects the Kurdish experience of dispossession and exile, but also speaks to all lives scattered in the world’s winds by oppression and aggression.

Directed by

Erol Mintaş

Written by

Erol Mintaş

Mikko Viljanen

Cast

Dilan Gwyn ("The Turkish Detective", "Dracula Untold")

Feyyaz Duman ("My Name if Farah", "Yalan")

Ali Seçkiner Alici ("Children of Paradise")

Cinematographer

Juice Huhtala

Editor

Antti Reikko

Erol Mintaş

Producers

Mete Sasioglu

Erol Mintaş

Production Designer

Nanna Hirvonen

Costume Designer

Roosa Marttiini

Make Up

Helene Frese

Hair

Claudia Goetz

Sound Designer

Sebastian Schmidt

Produced by

Sons of Lumière, Jamedia Production, Elemag Pictures

Theatrical distributor in Finland: Cinemanse

Theatrical distributor in Sweden: Folkets Bio

Broadcaster in Finland: Yle