The Best of Dharamshala International Film Festival: 10 to 12 September 2018

 

The Swallow (Switzerland)

(102 min; 2017; dvd; English subtitles)

Director: Mano Khalil

 

In this delicate, tragic drama, Mira, a young, bored Swiss woman, goes in search of her father in Iraqi Kurdistan – a father she has only ever seen in a few photographs but whom she has placed on a pedestal…