A Kurdish-born soldier in the German army goes looking for the sister she lost to war, and Sisters Apart follows her from the barracks to a refugee camp in Greece and the front lines of Iraq.
What is Sisters Apart about?
Rojda grew up in Iraqi Kurdistan and now wears a German uniform. When she travels to a refugee camp in Greece, she manages to find her mother, who carries hard news about Rojda's sister Dilan. That news pushes Rojda to volunteer for a military mission training Kurdish women fighters in Iraq to confront ISIS. Nobody in her unit can know her real motive: beneath the official assignment, she is searching for the sister who vanished. The film moves between the disciplined world of the German military, the limbo of the camp and the dusty training grounds of northern Iraq, holding Rojda's private search inside a public war.
About the cast
Almila Bagriacik leads the cast, with Zübeyde Bulut, Maryam Boubani, Christoph Letkowski, Gonca de Haas, Niels-Bruno Schmidt, Yiannis Niarros and Lucas Prisor around her. The ensemble reflects the story's three settings, drawing together performers from the German, Greek and Kurdish strands of the narrative so that each stop on Rojda's journey has its own faces and voices.
Context & significance
Sisters Apart is a 2020 German-Greek co-production directed by Daphne Charizani, running about 93 minutes and classified as a war drama. Its subject sits at the meeting point of several contemporary European stories: the Kurdish diaspora in Germany, the refugee camps that formed on Greek soil during the migration crisis, and the involvement of Western armies in training Kurdish forces against ISIS. Rather than staging combat on a large scale, the drama is built around displacement and family separation, using the military framework as the structure that lets a daughter travel between worlds that would otherwise stay closed to her. The film's central figure is a woman serving in a European army while belonging to a people scattered by conflict, and the story keeps that double identity in view at every turn.
Watching Sisters Apart on Ktime
Sisters Apart streams on K-Time in its original languages, without a Persian dub or Persian subtitles, so it suits viewers comfortable following the dialogue as recorded. A K-Time account login is required to watch, while this page and the film's details remain free to read. The Farsi interface places the film alongside the catalogue's other war dramas and European titles.