Xalko is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Sami Mermer and Hind Benchekroun and released in 2018.André Lavoie, "«Xalko»: partir pour un morceau de pain". Le Devoir, October 25, 2019. The film profiles Mermer's own birthplace of Xalko, a Kurdish village in Turkey where the women are preserving Kurdish tradition after most of the men have left as refugees from the Kurdish–Turkish conflict.André Duchesne, "Xalko : les vraies gardiennes". La Presse, May 22, 2020.
The film premiered in November 2018 at the Montreal International Documentary Festival.Pat Mullen, "RIDM Announces 2018 Line-up" . Point of View, October 18, 2018. It won the Prix Iris for Best Documentary Film at the 22nd Quebec Cinema Awards in 2020, and Mermer received a nomination for Best Cinematography in a Documentary."Les femmes brillent aux nominations du Gala Québec Cinéma". Ici Radio-Canada, April 23, 2020.
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