Burning Nests

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Burning Nests is based on the true story of Ali, the lost and re-found son of Halabja. After the chemical attacks on the town of Halabja in South Kurdistan (Iraq), a little boy of only a couple of months old gets separated from his surviving family while being transported to Iran for medical treatment.

For twenty-seven years he grows up with an Iranian family under the assumption that he is Iranian, until his adoptive mother dies and the search for his real family in Halabja begins.

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