A Social Analysis of New Wave of Kurdish Cinema based on the Ethnic Cinema of Iran

The aim of the present study is an analysis of the socio-political currents affecting the formation of "Kurdish Cinema" in the Reform era. For this purpose, the present authors, based on their proposed model, that is a local version of the theories of Smith, Lovell, and Huaco in the emergence of new waves in cinema, investigate the development of "film in Kurdish language" in the context of intellectual cinema of Iran. Finally, based on Bourdieu's theoretical concepts, the most distinctive elements of this stream from the intellectual cinema of Iran and the creation of a regional field under the title of "Kurdish Cinema" are studied. This study shows that in the first half of the nineties, with providing structurally appropriate conditions for the formation of recent cinematic movements, at first, ethnic cinema in Iran, and then, film movement in Kurdish language were formed which later the filmmakers, while maintaining commonality with the Iranian cinema, through highlighting the characteristics of this new genre in their films and also through inclining to co-produce film with the autonomous region in Iraqi Kurdistan, Europe and being in line with similar movements in Turkey, could distinguish themselves from it and create necessary capital to create a regional Kurdish cinema.