1988年，两伊冲突接近尾声。10岁的迪勒和他的妹妹泽尼想要在电视上看动画片，但是当恃强凌弱的马罗出现后，这便说起来容易做起来难了…… 《英雄之地》为我们呈现了迪勒和泽尼一天的时光。他们在一个废弃的战争区搜集遗弃的武器和弹药，他们的妈妈玛吉姆再将这些洗干净后卖掉以养家糊口。迪勒在完成自己的任务后只希望能在电视上看动画片，但所有频道都涌现着战争的画面。他只好等萨达姆完成战争宣传。但他姑姑泽纳波和马罗的出现，迪了冒着错过他梦寐以求的动画片的险，并最终报复了恃强凌弱的马罗。 1988, the conflict between Iraq and Iran is reaching its final stage. The ten-year-old Dileer and his sister Zienee want to watch cartoons on television, but that is easier said than done when bully Malo comes along... Land of the Heroes shows us a day in the life time of the inventive Dileer and Zienee. They collect used weapons and ammunition in an abandoned war zone, so their mother Mirjem can clean and sell them in order to survive. When his task is done, Dileer just wants to watch his cartoons, but images of the war pop up on all channels. He just has to wait until the Saddam propaganda is finished. But when his aunt Zeyneb and Malo come along and Dileer finally takes revenge on bully Malo, he risks to miss his long awaited cartoons. 2011柏林国际电影节新生代单元，评委会奖，最佳短片奖 / Jury Award Best Short Film Generation, Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin. 2011釜山国际短片电影节，评委会奖，最佳影片奖 / Jury Award, Best Film, Busan International Short Film Festival, South-Korea. 2011新吉奥维罗纳的国际电影节，评委会奖，最佳短片奖 / Jury Award, Best Short Film, International Film Festival San Gio Verona. 2011迪拜国际电影节，评委会二等奖 / Muhr Arab Second Jury Price, Dubai International Film Festival. 萨姆·奥玛凯利法1980年生于伊拉克。2001年他离开伊拉克去了比利时，在那里他一边做翻译，一边在布鲁塞尔的圣卢卡斯艺术与设计大学学习视听艺术。他的毕业短片《Nan》成功为他获得了弗兰德视听基金（VAF）的通行证，并且有机会能够制作他的第一部专业短片《英雄之地》，此片是基于导演自己少年时对第一次伊拉克和伊朗之间的海湾战争的回忆，并且全部在伊拉克境内拍摄。 Director Sahim Omar Kalifa was born in 1980 in Kurdish Iraq. He came to Belgium in 2001, where he worked as an interpreter and meanwhile studied Audiovisual Arts at the University of Art and Design Sint-Lukas in Brussels. With the successful short film Nan, his graduation project, he won a wildcard from the Flemish Audiovisual Fund (VAF) and was now capable of making his first professional short Land of the Heroes. Land of the heroes is based on the director’s youth memories in the first Gulf War, between Iraq and Iran and is entirely shot on location in Iraq. 2006 Zwart Water, Jury Award Best Picture Melbourne Kurdic Film Festival. 2008 Nan, Wildcard VAF International Short Film Festival Leuven. 2011 Land of the Heroes, Jury Award Generation Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin.