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When Majid’s village becomes polluted, he is forced to move his family to a hunting cabin near the border, where secrets and mounting demands threaten everything they cherish.
‘The Wild Goat’ is a poetic suspense drama that follows the journey of Majid, a 45-year-old Kurdish-Iraqi shopkeeper whose peaceful life is shattered by escalating pollution threatening his village along the Tigris River. Faced with the imminent loss of everything he holds dear, Majid is forced to relocate his family to a remote hunting cabin near the border, seeking refuge in the solace of nature. However, even amid the wilderness, he quickly discovers that true peace remains elusive. Haunted by fear and driven by a desperate need to stand on his own, Majid secretly returns to his ravaged village. That act marks the beginning of his descent into madness. Together with his trusted friend and former villager, he embarks on a risky quest to forge a new life amid chaos and uncertainty. As secrets unfold and darker demands emerge, the line between reality and madness blurs. Their journey pulls them deeper into a spiralling crisis, forcing Majid to confront whether survival means escaping the turmoil or facing the painful truths that lie beneath. ‘The Wild Goat’ explores themes of family, resilience, and the fragile human spirit on the vast borderlands where Majid and his family struggle to adapt to their new reality, constantly teetering on the edge of chaos and hope.

Credits

Director
Kardo Mansur
Screenwriter
Kardo Mansur
Producer
Mehmet Aktaş, Øyvind Lierhagen Eriksen
Production Company
Storyline Film, mîtosfilm, True Content Production

About the Director

Saman (Kardo) Mansur Hussein
Kardo Mansur is a Kurdish-Norwegian film director who studied film directing at the Nordic Institute of Scene and Studio in Oslo and earned a master’s degree in film dramaturgy from St Petersburg State University in Russia. Since 2005, he has worked in film production across Norway, Russia, Turkey, and Iraq. He began as an intern at 4 1/2, contributing to Joachim Trier’s ‘Reprise’ (2006) and Mariu
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