Busan Winner Shawkat Amin Korki’s Asian Project Market Title ‘Disorder’ Exposes Clash Between Psychiatry and Faith Healing in Kurdistan

Busan International Film Festival New Currents winner Shawkat Amin Korki, who won the prize in 2009 with “Kick Off” and later returned with “Memories on Stone” and “The Exam,” brings his new drama “Disorder” to the Asian Project Market, continuing his exploration of trauma, superstition, and the struggle for social progress.

The story centers on Mina, a 35-year-old psychiatrist trained in Germany who returns to Kurdistan to work at a mental health clinic treating survivors of war, including Yazidi women once held captive by Isis. When one of her patients dies by suicide after turning to a popular faith healer, Mina is scapegoated, triggering a lawsuit and public backlash. Her investigation into the healer, Sheikh Mossadegh, thrusts her into a battle against entrenched superstition and religious exploitation, even as her own community pulls away.

“The idea for the film comes from my own observations of a society where fear, superstition, and…