Big Man, Little Love

Big Man, Little Love (Turkish: Büyük Adam Küçük Aşk, Kurdish: Hêjar) is a 2001 international co-production drama film, written and directed by Handan İpekçi, about an orphaned Kurdish child and a Turkish pensioner thrown together by circumstance.

An orphaned Kurdish child (Hêjar) and a Turkish pensioner (Rıfat) are thrown together by circumstance.

Rıfat, a widowed retired judge, refuses to get involved in politics.

He is forced out of his solitude, when Hêjar the only survivor of a police raid on his Kurdish neighbors, takes refuge at his home.

Gradually, he warms up to the kid and decides to reunite her with her family.