And in the bus Hamo one day addresses it

"My grandfather had a lot of humour." "He said that he was born Kurdish, in a free land", and then it became ottoman, then Turkish and Kurdish to new, and then subject of her gracious Majesty, and "the English invented the Iraq, my grandfather became Iraqi, but until his last breath, he has never been proud to be Iraqi". Director Hiner Saleem proves definitively, in his third film, he inherited the humour of this grandfather in the autobiographical account published in parallel (). And that, like him, even if Iraq was born, and he left his country twenty-three years ago (he lives in Paris for ten years, and there made his first film, "long live the bride and the liberation of Kurdistan"), he feels still Kurdish, and free. After "Dream smugglers", his second film, he had already filmed there, he returned here in Kurdish villages in Armenia. For a zany and severe, chronic where snow does not preclude the hearts to ignite. On bottom of misery assumed with dignity, but who says a lot about the State of the countries of the former Soviet Union.

"Vodka lemon" starts on the wheel... hats in a bed, pulled by a pickup truck, sliding speed on a snowy road. The old bed man is thus convey comes to a small group, removes his dentures, and takes her flute: it is a funeral, he accompanies the songs. In the snow, reddened by the flowers of the crowns. The is given. That of a tonic cocktail of surrealism and poetry, derision and tenderness...

A fragile romance

The hero is the widower, Hamo, which, in the first scene, buried his dearly loved wife. It is sexagenary, is still beautiful, and lives with a son without a job, a little pochard, a little lazy, and her daughter. His other son is France, it facing his letters, that he hoped full of money. To receive, to go to Yerevan, in sidecar, we meet old friends, and can drink a little. To forget that the envelope, mailed to Alfortville, is once more tragically flat (the exile has not again his residence card, but already a bride)... Then, to live, Hamo has been reduced to sell what is not strictly vital to him: his military uniform, attempting an uninspiring flanked by a Taming, and his Cabinet, it carries only always snowy road, stopping in the middle of nowhere. And to unburden himself, he takes the bus and joined his wife, or rather his picture that adorns his tomb. At the cemetery, a beautiful woman is often at the same time as him: it is the grave of a soldier she comes regularly visit. And in the bus, Hamo, one day, addresses it...

A fragile romance is build, to the sound of the song of Adamo, "Falls the snow", rengaine favorite driver of bus, and the neighbors and parents exhubérants, often gathered around meagre but happy banquets, there is also a stand of vodka (hence the title) open to all winds at a crossroads, a runaway piano, a forgotten red stool on the roada beautiful little fierce girl, a marriage that seems to immediately threatened. On a cold but it does not say, drinking to warm up, sings it for not to cry... Funny, warm, emotional, elegantly desperate and beautifully optimistic at the same time, a film which, despite the snow, is hot... in the heart. He was awarded the prize for the best film in the section "Backwash" of the last Venice Festival.