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Suzana is a Kurdish-Swedish mother of three children - and soon to be middle age. One day she decides to make the dream of her life come true: to become a pop star. At any cost! She faces her husband with a ultimatum: support me or I leave! Against all odds she succeeds to convince Josef to support a CD recording and a career as an artist. And finally she gets a huge press attention when her CD finally is released in Turkey. A CD in Kurdish and with her Kurdish stage name Suzana Barmani. The taste of victory is then complete when her video is shown on TV - and seen by the family in Kurdistan. Suzana Barmanis Photo: Kurdishinfo

The film about Suzana is about struggle. Struggle on different levels: for a dream to come true, for a future as an artist, for a free Kurdistan where the Kurdish language may be spoken freely without oppression and repression from the Turkish state. And finally, and most important: Suzana lifelong struggle to extend the boundaries of women. To become an example for other women to free them selves. For Suzana this is a rebellion against a very conservative traditional culture where the individual is submitted to the group and where female obedience is a matter of honor for the whole family. Was broadcasted on SVT in the spring of 2005.

Suzana Barmanis Biography

Suzana Barmani was born 1964, in Ariha, Syria and spent many years of her childhood in halebo and afrin proyins of Kurdistan.

She finished upper secondary school in 1983 and started studying English in Halebo in 1984. One year later she went to Bulgaria and studied music for four years at the National High School of Music in sofia. Apart from this, she also studied san and drama education. Then she took up residence in Sweden. She teaches language and Oslo dance and music to children for a project in 1991 and 1992. At the same time she gave concerts, both in Sweden and other countries. Her first album Le Le was released in August 2004 in Istanbul. The release was celebrated with a cocktail party and huge attendance from broad casting media. Now she is working on her second album.