Drama

Bekas

- The American Dream is waiting just around the corner.

Two shoeshiner homeless brothers named Zana and Dana live on the edge of survival. They catch a glimpse of Superman through a hole in the wall at the local cinema and decide that they want to go to America in order to meet Superman.

Release Date : 2012-11-30

Language :Kurdish

Adult : false

Status : Released

Production Company : Sonet FilmHelsinki-filmiFilm i VästAva MediaFS FilmSVT

Production Country : SwedenFinlandIraq

Alternative Titles :

Cast

Character Name : Zana

Original Name : Zamand Taha

Gender : Male

Character Name : Dana

Original Name : Sarwar Fazil

Gender : Male

Character Name : Helliya

Original Name : Diya Mariwan

Gender : Male

Character Name : Baba Shalid

Original Name : Suliman Karim Mohamad

Gender : Male

Character Name : Mama Hama

Original Name : Rahim Hussen

Gender : Male

Character Name : Osman

Original Name : Abdulrahman Mohamad

Gender : Male

Character Name : Jamal

Original Name : Shirwan Mohamad

Gender : Male

Character Name : Ali

Original Name : Bahadin Halabjai

Gender : Male

Character Name : Hagi Alan

Original Name : Nawzad Majid

Gender : Male

Character Name : Professor Rizgar

Original Name : Bakir Mustafa

Gender : Male

Character Name : Pora Begard

Original Name : Baxan Mohamad

Gender : Male

Character Name : Ismail

Original Name : Mohamad Salah

Gender : Male

Character Name : Ari

Original Name : Diyar Jamal

Gender : Male

Character Name : Laila

Original Name : Binay Bahman

Gender : Male

Character Name : Azad

Original Name : Ari Muhedin

Gender : Male

Character Name : Saman

Original Name : Xani Nabaz

Gender : Male

Character Name : Hez

Original Name : Haryad Sabah

Gender : Male

Character Name : Husain

Original Name : Jwtiar Nashad

Gender : Male

Character Name : Ardalan's wife

Original Name : Shawhm Muhamad

Gender : Male

Character Name : Ardalan's daughter

Original Name : Siva Kamaran

Gender : Male

Character Name : Heresh

Original Name : Shwan Mohamad Sdiq

Gender : Male

Character Name : Helliya's mother

Original Name : Ashna Rawf

Gender : Male

Character Name : Mustafa

Original Name : Zana Husain

Gender : Male

Character Name : Rawf

Original Name : D. Taha

Gender : Male

Character Name : Reza

Original Name : Mohamad Majid

Gender : Male

Character Name : Reza's father

Original Name : Shwan Said

Gender : Male

Character Name : Shilan

Original Name : Bahra Abdul Rahman

Gender : Male

Character Name : Sherko

Original Name : Dlier Hasan Taha

Gender : Male

Character Name : Big brother

Original Name : Zanwer Faxr Fazil

Gender : Male

Character Name : Little brother

Original Name : Zaman Faxr Fazil

Gender : Male

Character Name : Taxi driver

Original Name : Rebwar Hama Hawrami

Gender : Male

Character Name :

Original Name : Rebwar Amin

Gender : Male

Character Name :

Original Name : Bahzad Jalal

Gender : Male

Character Name : Soldier

Original Name : Bahadin Azabang

Gender : Male

Character Name : Soldier

Original Name : Ata Hama Salih

Gender : Male

Character Name : Soldier

Original Name : Twana Xani

Gender : Male

Character Name : Soldier

Original Name : Abd Hawrami

Gender : Male

Character Name : Truck driver

Original Name : Ali Twana

Gender : Male

Character Name : Man

Original Name : Muhamad Abdulla

Gender : Male

Character Name : Man

Original Name : Omar Karim Axa

Gender : Male

Character Name : Girl

Original Name : Sivar Sarkawt

Gender : Male

Character Name : Boy

Original Name : Omar Mohamad

Gender : Male

Character Name : Boy

Original Name : Dilman Shwan

Gender : Male

Character Name : Ardalan

Original Name : Kamaran Nuri Gulala

Gender : Male

Reviews

Reno

@Rangan

2024-05-16

Nowadays its a customary to take the acclaimed short movies to stretch for the feature films by the incoming directors. All they need is a good producer and the distributors, the actors can be managed with the new faces. Yep, this movie was inspired by the short film of the same name like 'Short Term 12', 'District 9' et cetera. Most importantly, these films met a great success because of the beautiful story, characters and narration. This movie was directed by the Iraq born filmmaker who is now residing in Sweden. Most of the recent movies, in fact, all of them outlines Iraq as a war field. But this film was such a poetic, shot in the real locations, brings a calm and beautiful 90s Iraq on the screen that you have probably never seen in a decade. The main two characters were inspired by the director and his elder brother, when they were kids and lived in the Kurdish part of Iraq. But the story was marginally fictional except the dreams of the children from the third world. I must agree, this movie practically describes how the influence of American products, films and culture affects the young kids from a country like Iraq. Their over obsession leads to dream bigger without knowing that's impossible to make it true. If you are a non-American you would have had such obsession in your childhood on soft drinks like Cola, Pepsi, or fast foods like from KFC, McDonald, or TV cartoons and Marvel Comic books et cetera. So, in some way, somewhat it's a tiny part of your story as well. > "If a family is united, they will be strong." There is no exact one word translation for 'Bekas'. It means 'homeless orphans' according to the director's explanation during an interview at one of the film festivals. This movie is all about two young Kurdish boys, Dana and Zana, and Superman, Michael Jackson and Coca Cola. If we talk about the story, it's when 'Slumdog Millionaire' meets 'In This World'. The movie begins similar fashion to SDM where kids are playing football and after that go straight to their business, instead school. In fact many scenes resemble above two films I mentioned and also other films. When the brothers get separates, that kind of reminded me 'The Gods Must Be Crazy 2'. Thus the screenplay originality lacks, other than that it is nothing less than to consider a wonderful film. There are some scenes that make you go edge of your seat. Grabs our attention, creating tensions and thrills in the scenes like check-post and landmines. Emotions did not strike well because it's seemed more like a dark comedy. A bit commercialised than being realistic. The music was so good, awesome blend to portray the adventures, along with the two great performances, ignited the movie to emerge as a pleasant family entertainer. There might be millions of reasons to blame this movie because of similarity with other films and other stuffs, but overall I felt happy. Criticisers still going to criticize it, despite those flaws definitely worth to check it out.