{"id":619321,"date":"2024-05-03T19:45:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-03T16:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-a-kurdish-refugee-comes-of-age-in-harrowing-doc-4\/"},"modified":"2024-05-03T19:45:00","modified_gmt":"2024-05-03T16:45:00","slug":"watch-a-kurdish-refugee-comes-of-age-in-harrowing-doc-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-a-kurdish-refugee-comes-of-age-in-harrowing-doc-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch A Kurdish Refugee Comes of Age in Harrowing Doc"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3fa8f7e0787\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3fa8f7e0787\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-a-kurdish-refugee-comes-of-age-in-harrowing-doc-4\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_A_Kurdish_Refugee_Comes_of_Age_in_Harrowing_Doc%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online A Kurdish Refugee Comes of Age in Harrowing Doc&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-a-kurdish-refugee-comes-of-age-in-harrowing-doc-4\/#%E2%80%9CA_Kurdish_Refugee_Comes_of_Age_in_Harrowing_Doc%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;A Kurdish Refugee Comes of Age in Harrowing Doc&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_A_Kurdish_Refugee_Comes_of_Age_in_Harrowing_Doc%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online A Kurdish Refugee Comes of Age in Harrowing Doc&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CA_Kurdish_Refugee_Comes_of_Age_in_Harrowing_Doc%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;A Kurdish Refugee Comes of Age in Harrowing Doc&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    A documentary about harrowing loss and fleeting joy, Agnieszka Zwiefka\u2018s \u201cSilent Trees\u201d follows a grieving family of Kurdish refugees escaping legal limbo. With animated interludes that function as flashbacks, it captures the world through the bespectacled eyes of a soft-spoken 16-year-old, Runa, a girl forced to grow up far too quickly in a Polish refugee camp.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    The film plays like a follow-up and companion piece to another recent Polish production detailing the same inhumane premise: Agnieszka Holland\u2019s \u201cGreen Border,\u201d a haunting dramatization of the \u201cred zone\u201d between the borders of Poland and Belarus, where numerous Middle Eastern migrants have been cruelly bounced back and forth between the two countries. Guerrilla cell-phone footage introduces us to the grim violence therein, laying the foundation for Runa\u2019s coming-of-age story through dark, pixelated images of what she, her parents and her four younger brothers have been through.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Having escaped this legal no man\u2019s land, they are effectively the lucky ones, but their troubles are far from over. When we first meet Runa\u2019s family, her mother \u2014 pregnant with the family\u2019s sixth child \u2014 lays dying in a hospital from the hypothermia that set in at the frigid border. Her father, an illiterate hairdresser, searches for ways to make ends meet while they wait for temporary asylum, while Runa herself painstakingly learns English from her new friends and various <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social<\/a> workers, so that she can eventually learn Polish and become her family\u2019s interpreter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    In capturing this arduous emotional journey \u2014 during which it feels like the ground beneath Runa\u2019s family could crack open at any second \u2014 Zwiefka\u2019s camera remains a gentle observer. It reckons, at times, with the ethics of capturing this story in the first place, and embodies this artistic dilemma by occasionally obscuring the family\u2019s most difficult moments behind doors left slightly ajar. While Runa and her father do their best to keep their feelings in check, their resolve is challenged by each new emotional and legal hurdle, and by ways in which Runa\u2019s brothers deal with the situation: with exasperated, adolescent rage that\u2019s occasionally too gut-churning to watch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Zwiefka eventually comes down on the side of portraying these experiences in full, and in the process, she captures the looming uncertainty that follows the family even when their situation seems to improve. She also occasionally returns to the site of their most recent trauma: the frigid, liminal forest between two countries where they were led astray by predatory traffickers and had their humanity subsequently s<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trip<\/a>ped by two different governments using them as bargaining chips.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    This political backdrop hovers over the story via <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a> broadcasts in the background, but the film never cuts away from its subjects for the sake of exposition. Instead, it captures what they hear and see in real time, with their smartphones as windows to both their remaining family in Iraq, and to the government mouthpieces that dehumanize them with dangerous propaganda. Zwiefka and cinematographer Kacper Czubak also use phone screens to light some of the movie\u2019s most emotionally powerful moments, including and especially Runa\u2019s father receiving bad news in a darkened car, as his device illuminates the tears he tries so hard to withhold.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    But the camera also has its limits, and where it cannot go \u2014 into the past, and into Runa\u2019s imagination \u2014 the animation goes instead. The film, in this way, resembles Jonas Poher Rasmussen\u2019s \u201cFlee,\u201d which disguises the identities of its refugee subjects using hand-drawn sequences. However, in this case, the animated scenes by Yellow Tapir Films work as extension of Runa herself. She\u2019s seen occasionally sketching her memories and surroundings in black and white, and the studio\u2019s cartooning matches her style as it depicts, with abstract flourishes, both her dreams and her darkest fears, as the trees of the red zone forest take on disturbingly ghostly qualities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    A film in which daily uncertainties hollow its subjects out from within \u2014 but in which even the smallest joys start to feel defiant \u2014 \u201cSilent Trees\u201d puts human faces to the statistics and news tickers that have defined modern refugee crises. It\u2019s a family drama first and foremost, embodied by a young girl coming of age and finding her place in a world intent on rejecting her very existence.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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