Kurdish Lover # 53
Kurdish Lover
19:00, Saturday 15th June, CMB 1&2
- Director/Anthropologist: Clarisse Hahn
- Year of Release: 2013
- Duration: 98 mins
- Country of Production: France
- Location: France
- Language: French, English, German, Turkish
The Kurdish lover is Oktay, a man of Kurdish origin, with whom I share my life. We have been drifting through a devastated region brought to a standstill by war and economic misery. How to people to co-exist in this place?
The protagonists live in close proximity to one another, in a tightly woven network of geographical and social ties. Loving someone can become confused with having a hold over them. It is often with black humour that the characters featured in this film find ways within their community to affirm that they truly exist. A shaman goes into trance in front of the television, a sex-starved hermit dreams of marriage. A ewe is sacrificed and eaten, an old woman prevents her daughter-in-law from learning to read, a shepherdess lives at the top of the mountain and would like to return to the valley, the military watch over the village, a man who came from Europe goes off to request the hand in marriage of a young girl living with her mother.
Organised by the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain & Ireland (RAI) since 1985, it is an itinerant festival that moves biennially from one university host to another, in association with local community and cultural organisations.
The festival will be held from Thursday 13 June to Sunday 16 June 2013 in Edinburgh, hosted by National Museums Scotland and the STAR consortium. Scottish Training in Anthropological Research (STAR) is a collaboration between the Universities of Aberdeen, Glasgow, Edinburgh and St. Andrews. Over 60 new films will be screened alongside a conference 'New Observations' and a selection of special events and workshop about art & anthropology and the use of archival film.
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