Yol
Director: Yılmaz Güney and Şerif Gören
Year: 1982
Runtime: 124 minutes
Country of origin: Bakuri Kurdistan
Country of filming: Bakuri Kurdistan
Category: Feature fiction
Language: Turkish, Kurdish
Synopsis
In Turkey, several prisoners are on temporary leave from prison. One of them, Seyit Ali, travels to his house and discovers that his wife Zine had to turn to prostitution for survival. Determined to perform an honor killing on his wife, he changes his mind when he realizes that she is freezing while traveling in the snow.
A second prisoner, Mehmet Salih, was arrested for his role in a heist with his brother-in-law, whom he abandoned as police shot at him. His in-laws disown him, and he is finally forced to tell his wife Emine the truth. Emine and Mehmet Salih decide to run away on a train.
A third prisoner, Ömer, returns to his village near the Turkish-Syrian border. In a battle between Kurdish smugglers and Turkish soldiers, his brother is shot dead. Ömer inherits the responsibility for his late brother’s family and becomes the husband to his late brother’s wife, as dictated by tradition.
Sorani:
SORANI TO COME لە مانگی ئەیلولی ٢٠١٦، سەرۆک کۆماری تورکیا ئەمینداری بۆ جێگرتنەوەی بەرپرسانی هەڵبژێردراو لە شارەوانییەکانی لایەنگری کورد دامەزراند، بەمەش دەسەڵاتی حوکمڕانی ناوخۆیی لێسەندرایەوە. چوار دانیشتووی دیاربەکر هەوڵی پاراستنی کولتووری کوردی لە ڕێگەی زەوی و جەستە و خواردن و مۆسیقاوە دەدەن. لەگەڵ پەرەسەندنی چیرۆکەکانیان، بەریەککەوتنی ئیپیکی نێوان چاکە و خراپە لەسەر شانۆیەکی دراماتیک دەکرێتەوە.
Director's Bio
Yılmaz Güney (1937–84) was a Kurdish film director, screenwriter, novelist, and actor who rose to prominence in the Turkish film industry. Many of his works are devoted to the plight of working-class people in Turkey. He won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 1982 for Yol (The Road), which he co-directed with Şerif Gören. He was at constant odds with the Turkish government over the portrayal of Kurdish culture, people and language.
After being convicted of killing a judge in 1974 (a charge he denied), Güney fled the country and was later stripped of his citizenship. A year before his death in 1983, he co-founded the Kurdish Institute of Paris together with the Kurdish poets Cegerxwîn and Hejar among others.
Sorani: TO COME THIS IS PLACEHOLDER
ئازاد عەزیزیان سینەماکاری دۆکیۆمێنتاری کورد-ئەمریکییە و بۆ دەربڕینی ئەزموون و هەست و سۆزی هاوبەش، چەندین فیلمی دیکۆمێنتاریی جۆراوجۆری دروستکردووە. کارەکانی بریتین لە پەیوەندی کردن لەگەڵ هونەرمەندان لە هەموو بەشەکانی کوردستان و تیشک خستنە سەر ئەو سەختییانەی کە کورد بە درێژایی مێژووی خۆی لە سەرانسەری نەوەکاندا ڕووبەڕووی بووەتەوە. هاوکات لەگەڵ فێستیڤاڵە نێودەوڵەتییەکانی فیلمی کوردی کاردەکات بۆ پێشکەشکردنی سینەمای کوردی بۆ بینەرانی جیهانی.
