Resumen

RODRIGUEZ GARCIA, Violeta. Mutilated by the Border. Images of Kurdistan and the Kurds in Bahman Ghobadi’s Films. Hist. graf [online]. 2023, n.61, pp.61-94.  Epub 28-Ago-2023. ISSN 1405-0927.  https://doi.org/10.48102/hyg.vi61.481.

This paper presents an analysis of the images of the Kurds, Kurdistan, and the border crafted by Bahman Ghobadi in the films Turtles Can Fly (2004) and Halfmoon (2006). The research focuses on the value of cinema as a favorable medium for Kurds to produce their own representations as a marginalized community. In addition to addressing the relevance of the cinematic medium in the creation and circulation of symbolic content, this study seeks to emphasize its ability to shape this content and politically influence a contemporary socio-historical issue. It is proposed that by presenting the Kurds as victims of war and showing Kurdistan as a territory with its own borders, the selected films act as counter-visuals, as they question both the legitimacy of the borders of the nation-states into which Kurdistan was divided and the biased representations of the Kurds that have been made by external agents.

Palabras llave : cinema; Bahman Ghobadi; border; Kurds-Kurdistan; counter-visuals.

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