Good Kurds, Bad Kurds (2011)
Directed by Kevin McKiernan
Sub-Genres - Biography, Military & War, Politics & Government, Race & Ethnicity |
Run Time - 90 min. |
Countries - United States |
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Synopsis by Jonathan Crow
Kevin McKiernan directs this passionate account about the plight of the Kurds, the world's largest minority without a nation. The film opens with McKiernan shopping around his painstakingly researched findings to ABC's Nightline and other news telecasts only to meet complete indifference. From there, he describes the Gunduz family, an exiled Kurdish family. The film cuts between grisly footage from the front lines of Turkey's bloody Kurdish repression to the struggles of Gunduz patriarch Kani, who works as a congressional lobbyist.
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Kurdistan, ethnocentrism, Middle-East, minority, persecution, plight, repression, Turkish [nationality], exile, war
