As a twelve year old girl she refused to be given in marriage. Thirty years later Nuriye Kesbir is still fighting, now as a wanted leader of a guerrilla-movement. Why does a women turn her back on marriage and motherhood to choose for a path that leads to a battle of life and death instead? A film about a stubborn Kurdish woman who ended up on a road of no return because of her personal choices. 'Sozdar, she who lives her promise' is a frank portrait of the backgrounds and motives of Nuriye Kesbir, one of the leaders of the Kurdish resistance movement PKK. Filmmaker Annegriet Wietsma followed Kesbir on her remarkable journey, beginning in a Dutch prison and ending in the rough mountains of Northern Iraq.
Directed by Annegriet Wietsma
Your score–
Not scoredImages
Cast
Related
To Kill a Tiger
Come See Me in the Good Light
A Toxic Love Story
The Class of ‘92
Directed by John Ford
My Mom Jayne
Anna Nicole Smith: You Don't Know Me
In the Realms of the Unreal
I Am Ali
Sidney
As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
Feminists: What Were They Thinking?
Katy Perry: Part of Me
Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction
Being James Bond
Beyoncé: Life Is But a Dream