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Vina is a five-year-old Kurdish girl with blond hair - she was born in Sweden. She travels with her father to northern Iraq to visit her grandparents and help her uncle escape to Europe. It's not a simple journey. First, her father - a peshmerga opponent of Saddam Hussein before becoming a refugee - must get to Brussels to buy a Mercedes. This is what most Kurds do before they go back. They buy a car for the journey and sell it once they arrive. The small profit goes to the family. Father and daughter drive to Italy where they take the boat for Turkey. They enter northern Iraq with great difficulty. The atmosphere there is tense. There is an undeclared civil war among Kurds and America is threatening to bomb Baghdad again. Vina sees her grandparents but her uncle's escape has to be delayed. This film is a journey into the heart of migration. It describes a world in which refugees are not adventurous but afraid to depart.

Belgium - 1999 - 54 mn - Betacam Digital - Colour

Réalisation Lode Desmet Enquête Nawzad Tofec Image Marc Beuls Son Stijn Jacobs Montage Luc Provoost Musique Roel De Ruijter

Production Vlaamse Radio- en Televisieomroep, Canvas, Auguste Reyerslaan 52, B-1043 Bruxelles, Belgique Tél : (32 2) 741 5322 Fax : (32 2) 741 4610 E-mail : jan.homble@vrt.be Co-Production Radiotélévision belge de la communauté française, SVT - Sveriges Television AB, SWR Stuttgart, Nederlandse Programma Stichting, YLE

Ventes Var, Tollaan 107 B, Box 3, 1932 Sint Stevens Woluwe, Belgique Tél : +32 2 716 3411 Fax : +32 2 725 3977 E-mail : nora.deherdt@var.be