All the Mountains Give

Two young Kurdish men make a living carrying smuggled household goods on their backs across the mountainous borderlands between Iran and Iraq.

The trade, known as kolbari, pays little for back-breaking labour and great danger, but other work in the region is scarce.

Formerly a kolbar himself, first time filmmaker Arash Rakhsha spent six years filming the friends, to create this strikingly cinematic and profound portrait.