Kurdish film

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The Kurdish film is dominated by the fate of the Kurds as a people without a state. He tells of social grievances, oppression, torture, human rights violations and life as a stranger. The film is of great importance for the Kurds, as it offers the opportunity to draw attention to one's own situation in an artistic way. However, due to government repression, making films is not an easy matter. Most films are made in exile. The best example of this is Turkey , where Kurds were not allowed to speak their mother tongue until 1991; which made the development of the Kurdish film difficult. The most famous Kurdish directors are Yılmaz Güney and Nizamettin Ariç . Yılmaz Güney began making films back in the 1950s. For his film Yol - The Road from 1982 he even received the Palme d'Or at the Cannes International Film Festival . His death in Paris in 1984 meant the end of Kurdish film for a long time, especially when it was achieving international fame. However, another Kurdish film followed in 1991 called “A Song for Beko” by Nizamettin Ariç from a German-Armenian production. In 1992, Mem û Zîn by director Ümit Elçi from a Turkish production followed. The film Siyabend and Xecê dates from 1993 and was also produced in Turkey. The number of film releases is steadily increasing u. a. Productions from Iran . Bahman Ghobadi e.g. B. received the Peace Film Prize at the Berlinale for his film Turtles Can Fly .

The first film about Kurds was the film Zare, made by Hamo Beknazaryan in 1926 . Tsare was filmed in the Armenian SSR .

Directors

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Films (selection)

  • 1926: Tsare (Hamo Beknazarian)
  • 1979: The herd
  • 1982: Yol - The Way (Yilmaz Güney)
  • 1982: The Wall / Duvar (Yilmaz Güney)
  • 1991: A song for Beko
  • 1992: Mem and Zin
  • 1993: Siyabend and Hece / Silent Caravan / The place where God sleeps (short film)
  • 1995: A song against the rain / Bêrîvan (short films)
  • 1996: The Melody of the Girl in the Valley (short film)
  • 1997: The Guest (short film)
  • 1998: April children
  • 1999: Journey to the Sun / Black Boards
  • 1999: Triumph of Iron / The Wind Will Carry Us / The Land (short film)
  • 2000: The time of the drunken horses / Black boards / The man with the white jacket / Karapet by Xaco / The photographer
  • 2001: The headdress / It is difficult to stay or to leave (short film)
  • 2002: Jiyan / Life (Eng .: life)
  • 2002: Lost in Iraq / Hope (short film)
  • 2003: Vodka Lemon / Absolutely today (short film)
  • 2004: Turtles can fly
  • 2005: Kilomètre zéro
  • 2006: Beritan / Half Moon / Newroz (short film, documentary film about the Kurdish New Year festival)
  • 2007: Dol - Valley of the Drum / David and Layla / Crossing the Dust
  • 2007: Magara adami (German: The Cave Man)
  • 2008: Sorres and Zirin, short film from Germany
  • 2008: My Marlon and Brando (tr .: Gitmek)
  • 2009: Bahoz (German: The Storm)
  • 2010: Min dît (German: I've seen)
  • 2011: The shadow of a sphere
  • 2011: Mes - run!
  • 2012: Bekas
  • 2013: Were Dengê Min (German: Follow my voice)
  • 2013: My Sweet Pepper Land
  • 2014: Zonê ma Koti yo? (tr .: Ana dilim nerde?)
  • 2014: Klama Dayîka Min (tr .: Annemin Şarkısı)
  • 2015: Reseba (German: The Black Wind)
  • 2016: The Swallow (Mano Khalil)
  • 2017: Zer - Whose Love (Kazım Öz)
  • 2017: Filles du Feu (Stéphane Breton)

New Kurdish documentary film movement

In the recent past a new documentary film movement has emerged in all four parts of Kurdistan. In France, Germany and Switzerland, Kurdish filmmakers set up film production companies that were funded by public broadcasters in these countries. Kurdish filmmakers use documentaries as a tool to mainly reach educated western viewers and inform them about historical and current circumstances in Kurdistan. This is done in particular by showing the films at film festivals and on social media. Many of these documentaries were made with a small budget and few employees. The film Banaz a Love Story, produced by Deeyah Khan, is about Banaz Mahmod, a 20-year-old Kurdish woman from Mitcham, south London, who was killed in 2006 in a murder carried out by her father, uncle and cousins. The film won an Emmy Award in the category Best International Current Affairs in 2013. Now some of this documentation follows:

  • 2008: Close up Kurdistan (Yüksel Yavuz)
  • 2012: Banaz a Love Story (Deeyah Khan)
  • 2013: 1.001 Apples (Taha Karimi)
  • 2013: The Beekeeper (Mano Khalil)
  • 2013: Hope / Hêvî (Yüksel Yavuz)
  • 2015: Bakur (Çayan Demirel & Ertugrul Mavioglu)
  • 2016: Dil Leyla (Asli Özarslan)
  • 2017: AMED - Memory of a City (Yüksel Yavuz)

swell

  • Filles du Feu a Stéphane Breton film
  • Cardullo, Bert (2012). World Directors and Their Films: Essays on African, Asian, Latin American, and Middle Eastern Cinema. Scarecrow Press. p. 210. ISBN 0810885247 .
  • Letsch, Constanze. "Film-makers withdraw from Istanbul festival in censorship protest". TheGuardianWeb. TheGuardian. Ed .: April 13, 2015.
  • Hill, Jessica. "1001 Apples leaves a poignant message". TheNational. Ed .: December 11, 2013.
  • "Banaz Mahmod 'honor' killing cousins ​​jailed for life". BBC News. Published: April 20, 2015

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