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Kurdish cinema

April 14, 2024

Kurdish cinema focuses on the Kurdish people and culture. The fate of the Kurds as a people without a state shaped their cinema. Kurdish films often show social grievances, oppression, torture, human rights violations, and life as a stranger. Kurdish cinema has a high significance for the Kurds, as it offers the opportunity to draw attention to their own situation artistically. However, because of state repression, most films are produced in exile. The best example of this is in Turkey, where Kurds were not permitted to speak their native language until 1991, which made the development of their films more difficult.[1]

History

 
Bahman Ghobadi, Iranian/Kurdish film director at the San Sebastián International Film Festival.

The first documented Kurdish film produced in Soviet Armenia was a 1927 silent film called Zarê, directed by Hamo Beknazarian. Set in 1915, the film depicts a romance between a young Yezidi couple, the shepherd Saydo and the titular Zare. In line with the 1920s ideologies, the film portrays how the Tsar administration used the ignorance of the Kurds to exploit from them with the help of the religious clerics and leaders. Krder-ezidner (Kurds-Yezidis), another black-and-white milestone silent film about Yezidi Kurds in Soviet Armenia was released in 1933. Directed by Amasi Martirosyan, it exhibited the establishment of a Kolkhoz in a Kurdish village.[2]

One of the founding fathers of Kurdish cinema is Yilmaz Güney, who is admired by Kurdish filmmakers for his ability to portray Kurdish cultures in his films, notably Sürü and Yol, despite restrictions levied against him by the Turkish Government.[3] Güney began making films in the 1950s. He won the Palme d`Or at the Cannes Film Festival for his 1982 film Yol - The Road.[4][5]

In the 1990s, Kurdish cinema culture received support from the newly founded Mesopotamia Cultural Center (MKM). The MKM established a cinema department in which several Kurdish directors made their first movies.[6] In 1995, the Istanbul branch of the MKM organized a cinema workshop.[6]

Yilmaz Güney, Jano Rosebiani, Bahman Qubadi, Shawkat Amin Korky, Mano Khalil, Hisham Zaman, Sahim Omar Kalifa, and Yüksel Yavuz are among the better known Kurdish directors. Some Kurdish filmmakers like Hiner Saleem live and work outside Kurdistan.[7]

In 1991, a Kurdish film, A Song for Beko by writer-director Nizamettin Ariç, was produced as a German-Armenian production. In 1992, director Ümit Elçi shot Mem û Zîn as a Turkish production. The film Siyabend and Xecê dates back to 1993 and was also produced in Turkey. The number of Kurdish films shot in Iran is growing gradually. Bahman Qubadi, for example, received the Special Mention by the Youth Jury for his film at the Berlinale Turtles Can Fly.[8]

Miraz Bezar's movie Min Dît: The Children of Diyarbakır won awards at the film festivals in San Sebastian, Hamburg, and Ghent. It was the first Kurdish-language movie at a Turkish film festival. It was shown at the Golden Orange Film Festival in Antalya where it won the special jury prize.[9] In the last couple of years in Germany and Switzerland, Kurdish filmmakers in exile who receive public funding from the states they live in, such as NEWA Film Berlin[10] or Frame Film GmbH Bern, for example have created film production companies.[11]

Through the 2000s and 2010s, there was an influx of documentary films filmed throughout Kurdistan. Kurdish filmmakers used documentary films as a tool to educate mainly Western viewers. They have shown their films in film festivals and on social networking sites to bring attention to the past and current events that have, and are, taking place in Kurdistan.[12] Many of these documentaries are shot in cinéma vérité styles, with a small budget and crew. The film Banaz: A Love Story, directed and produced by Deeyah Khan, documents Banaz Mahmod, a 20-year-old Kurdish woman from Mitcham, south London, who was killed in 2006 in a murder orchestrated by her father, uncle, and cousins.[13] It won the 2013 Emmy award for Best International Current Affairs Film.[14]

Films

List of notable films

List of notable documentaries

  • 1,001 Apples, 2013 by Taha Karimi [15]
  • AMED – Memory of a city, 2017 by Yüksel Yavuz
  • Bakur, 2015 by Çayan Demirel & Ertugrul Mavioglu [16]
  • Banaz: A Love Story, 2012 by Deeyah Khan
  • Close-up Kurdistan, 2008 by Yüksel Yavuz
  • Der Imker, 2013 by Mano Khalil
  • Dil Leyla, 2016 by Asli Özarslan
  • Hope – Hêvî, 2013, by Yüksel Yavuz

Directors

 
Jano Rosebiani
 
Yeşim Ustaoğlu

See also

References

  1. ^ . kurdishcinema.com. Archived from the original on 22 March 2020. Retrieved 30 May 2019.
  2. ^ Bozarslan, Hamit; Gunes, Cengiz; Yadirgi, Veli, eds. (2021-04-22). The Cambridge History of the Kurds (1 ed.). Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781108623711. ISBN 978-1-108-62371-1.
  3. ^ Biswas, Pradip (1999). Yilmaz Guney: Cineaste Militant. USA: University of Michigan Press. p. 10.
  4. ^ "Yilmaz Güney". IMDb. Retrieved 2019-08-22.
  5. ^ Arslanbenzer, Hakan (May 28, 2021). "Nuri Bilge Ceylan: Making European films in Turkish context". Daily Sabah. Retrieved 2021-05-28.
  6. ^ a b Koçer, Suncem (2014). "Kurdish Cinema as a transnational discourse genre: Cinematic visibility, cultural resilience, and political agency". International Journal of Middle East Studies. 46 (3): 473–488. ISSN 0020-7438. JSTOR 43303181.
  7. ^ Koksal, Ozlem (2016). Aesthetics of Displacement: Turkey and its Minorities on Screen. USA: Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 123. ISBN 9781501306495.
  8. ^ "Prizes & Honours 2005". www.berlinale.de. Retrieved 2020-11-13.
  9. ^ "Kritik zu Min Dît – Die Kinder von Diyarbakir - epd Film". www.epd-film.de. Retrieved 30 May 2019.
  10. ^ "NEWA FILM -". Retrieved 30 May 2019.
  11. ^ "Frame Film GmbH". Retrieved 30 May 2019.
  12. ^ Cardullo, Bert (2012). World Directors and Their Films: Essays on African, Asian, Latin American, and Middle Eastern Cinema. Scarecrow Press. p. 210. ISBN 978-0810885240.
  13. ^ "Banaz Mahmod 'honour' killing cousins jailed for life". BBC News. Retrieved 20 April 2015.
  14. ^ THE DEADLINE TEAM (August 14, 2013). "International Emmy Current Affairs, News Nominees Announced". deadline.com. Retrieved August 17, 2013.
  15. ^ Hill, Jessica. "1001 Apples departs a poignant message". TheNational. Retrieved December 11, 2013.
  16. ^ Letsch, Constanze. "Film-makers withdraw from Istanbul festival in censorship protest". TheGuardianWeb. TheGuardian. Retrieved 13 April 2015.

Sources

  • Cardullo, Bert (2012). World Directors and Their Films: Essays on African, Asian, Latin American, and Middle Eastern Cinema. Scarecrow Press. p. 210. ISBN 0810885247.

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Kurdish cinema focuses on the Kurdish people and culture The fate of the Kurds as a people without a state shaped their cinema Kurdish films often show social grievances oppression torture human rights violations and life as a stranger Kurdish cinema has a high significance for the Kurds as it offers the opportunity to draw attention to their own situation artistically However because of state repression most films are produced in exile The best example of this is in Turkey where Kurds were not permitted to speak their native language until 1991 which made the development of their films more difficult 1 Contents 1 History 2 Films 2 1 List of notable films 2 2 List of notable documentaries 3 Directors 4 See also 5 References 5 1 SourcesHistory nbsp Bahman Ghobadi Iranian Kurdish film director at the San Sebastian International Film Festival The first documented Kurdish film produced in Soviet Armenia was a 1927 silent film called Zare directed by Hamo Beknazarian Set in 1915 the film depicts a romance between a young Yezidi couple the shepherd Saydo and the titular Zare In line with the 1920s ideologies the film portrays how the Tsar administration used the ignorance of the Kurds to exploit from them with the help of the religious clerics and leaders Krder ezidner Kurds Yezidis another black and white milestone silent film about Yezidi Kurds in Soviet Armenia was released in 1933 Directed by Amasi Martirosyan it exhibited the establishment of a Kolkhoz in a Kurdish village 2 One of the founding fathers of Kurdish cinema is Yilmaz Guney who is admired by Kurdish filmmakers for his ability to portray Kurdish cultures in his films notably Suru and Yol despite restrictions levied against him by the Turkish Government 3 Guney began making films in the 1950s He won the Palme d Or at the Cannes Film Festival for his 1982 film Yol The Road 4 5 In the 1990s Kurdish cinema culture received support from the newly founded Mesopotamia Cultural Center MKM The MKM established a cinema department in which several Kurdish directors made their first movies 6 In 1995 the Istanbul branch of the MKM organized a cinema workshop 6 Yilmaz Guney Jano Rosebiani Bahman Qubadi Shawkat Amin Korky Mano Khalil Hisham Zaman Sahim Omar Kalifa and Yuksel Yavuz are among the better known Kurdish directors Some Kurdish filmmakers like Hiner Saleem live and work outside Kurdistan 7 In 1991 a Kurdish film A Song for Beko by writer director Nizamettin Aric was produced as a German Armenian production In 1992 director Umit Elci shot Mem u Zin as a Turkish production The film Siyabend and Xece dates back to 1993 and was also produced in Turkey The number of Kurdish films shot in Iran is growing gradually Bahman Qubadi for example received the Special Mention by the Youth Jury for his film at the Berlinale Turtles Can Fly 8 Miraz Bezar s movie Min Dit The Children of Diyarbakir won awards at the film festivals in San Sebastian Hamburg and Ghent It was the first Kurdish language movie at a Turkish film festival It was shown at the Golden Orange Film Festival in Antalya where it won the special jury prize 9 In the last couple of years in Germany and Switzerland Kurdish filmmakers in exile who receive public funding from the states they live in such as NEWA Film Berlin 10 or Frame Film GmbH Bern for example have created film production companies 11 Through the 2000s and 2010s there was an influx of documentary films filmed throughout Kurdistan Kurdish filmmakers used documentary films as a tool to educate mainly Western viewers They have shown their films in film festivals and on social networking sites to bring attention to the past and current events that have and are taking place in Kurdistan 12 Many of these documentaries are shot in cinema verite styles with a small budget and crew The film Banaz A Love Story directed and produced by Deeyah Khan documents Banaz Mahmod a 20 year old Kurdish woman from Mitcham south London who was killed in 2006 in a murder orchestrated by her father uncle and cousins 13 It won the 2013 Emmy award for Best International Current Affairs Film 14 FilmsList of notable films This film related list is incomplete you can help by adding missing items April 2021 Bekas 2012 Chaplin of the Mountains 2013 Come to my voice 2013 David amp Layla 2006 The End will be Spectacular 2019 Jiyan 2002 Marooned in Iraq 2002 Min Dit The Children of Diyarbakir 2009 My Sweet Pepper Land 2013 One Candle Two Candles 2014 Reseba The Dark Wind 2016 A Time for Drunken Horses 2000 Turtles Can Fly 2004 Vodka Lemon 2004 The Wall 1983 Yol 1982 Zare 1926 Zer 2017List of notable documentaries This film related list is incomplete you can help by adding missing items April 2021 1 001 Apples 2013 by Taha Karimi 15 AMED Memory of a city 2017 by Yuksel Yavuz Bakur 2015 by Cayan Demirel amp Ertugrul Mavioglu 16 Banaz A Love Story 2012 by Deeyah Khan Close up Kurdistan 2008 by Yuksel Yavuz Der Imker 2013 by Mano Khalil Dil Leyla 2016 by Asli Ozarslan Hope Hevi 2013 by Yuksel YavuzDirectors nbsp Jano Rosebiani nbsp Yesim UstaogluZuli Aladag Nizamettin Aric Bahman Ghobadi Yilmaz Guney Sahim Omar Kalifa Mano Khalil Shawkat Amin Korki Kazim Oz Ayse Polat Jano Rosebiani Nuray Sahin Hiner Saleem Yesim Ustaoglu Yuksel Yavuz Yusuf Yesiloz Hisham ZamanSee also nbsp Kurdistan portalKurds KurdistanReferences KurdishCinemaHomePage kurdishcinema com Archived from the original on 22 March 2020 Retrieved 30 May 2019 Bozarslan Hamit Gunes Cengiz Yadirgi Veli eds 2021 04 22 The Cambridge History of the Kurds 1 ed Cambridge University Press doi 10 1017 9781108623711 ISBN 978 1 108 62371 1 Biswas Pradip 1999 Yilmaz Guney Cineaste Militant USA University of Michigan Press p 10 Yilmaz Guney IMDb Retrieved 2019 08 22 Arslanbenzer Hakan May 28 2021 Nuri Bilge Ceylan Making European films in Turkish context Daily Sabah Retrieved 2021 05 28 a b Kocer Suncem 2014 Kurdish Cinema as a transnational discourse genre Cinematic visibility cultural resilience and political agency International Journal of Middle East Studies 46 3 473 488 ISSN 0020 7438 JSTOR 43303181 Koksal Ozlem 2016 Aesthetics of Displacement Turkey and its Minorities on Screen USA Bloomsbury Publishing p 123 ISBN 9781501306495 Prizes amp Honours 2005 www berlinale de Retrieved 2020 11 13 Kritik zu Min Dit Die Kinder von Diyarbakir epd Film www epd film de Retrieved 30 May 2019 NEWA FILM Retrieved 30 May 2019 Frame Film GmbH Retrieved 30 May 2019 Cardullo Bert 2012 World Directors and Their Films Essays on African Asian Latin American and Middle Eastern Cinema Scarecrow Press p 210 ISBN 978 0810885240 Banaz Mahmod honour killing cousins jailed for life BBC News Retrieved 20 April 2015 THE DEADLINE TEAM August 14 2013 International Emmy Current Affairs News Nominees Announced deadline com Retrieved August 17 2013 Hill Jessica 1001 Apples departs a poignant message TheNational Retrieved December 11 2013 Letsch Constanze Film makers withdraw from Istanbul festival in censorship protest TheGuardianWeb TheGuardian Retrieved 13 April 2015 Sources Cardullo Bert 2012 World Directors and Their Films Essays on African Asian Latin American and Middle Eastern Cinema Scarecrow Press p 210 ISBN 0810885247 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Kurdish cinema amp oldid 1217103947, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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