Waiting for Hiwa (2003)

Waiting for Hiwa - 85min., defines a powerful symbolic meaning of hope through transparency in dealing with his people's painful struggle to live in a cruel neighborhood of the Middle East. Bombed with chemical gasses and undergone ethnic cleansing by the deposed Saddam regime, Kakeyi narrates his people's real life through the trials of a Kurdish widow named Jiyan (Life), who still hopes to find her only child - a boy named Hiwa (Hope) lost in the aftermath of the gassing of Halabja, in March 1988. Using flashbacks, Kakeyi take us to the nightmares of Hiwa, a teenage boy originally from Halabja but adopted, readopted and now live with his new parents in Canada. Hiwa's yearnings for mother parallel the disturbing reality of Jiyan's life.