A Song for Beko
Amazon is sorely in need of a better summary for this film, so I will provide one here. Beko is a Kurdish man from Turkey. His brother, Cemal, does not wish to serve in the Turkish military as a matter of conscience and attempts to flee across the border into Iraq. When the military comes looking for Cemal they arrest Beko because he refuses to give away Cemal's whereabouts. However, the army truck Beko is being transported in is attacked and Beko escapes across the border into Iraq, where he meets a group of peshmergas. They take him to a camp where their wives and children are staying to avoid being gassed or bombed by the Iraqis. In the camp Beko befriends the children, frightened and traumatized. Many of the children are orphans and those who do have fathers rarely see them, since they are guerrillas fighting the Iraqis. The most touching scenes in the film are with the children, who show Beko the cave where they have sketched murals depicting the losses they have suffered. This...
Eye-opener to Kurdish minority situation in Turkey
Very amazing movie on Kurdish struggle from a Kurdish perspective, the image we receive in West mostly come from regimes who control Kurdish regions and this movie tell the story from Kurdish point.
I was fascinated by hardwork and patience these people hold. The quality was decent and translation was fair, however some parts of dialogues which were addressing Turkey or Iran was not translated, for example a section when he says that Turkey has ruined and burnt our houses were not in the subtitle. Some reference to Turkey's government actions were censored in the subtitle.
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