My name is Abdullah Öcalan offers a look into the life and struggle of Kurdish people’s leader Abdullah Öcalan. By bringing together images of Öcalan’s life and struggle with quotes from him in the form of a poem, this short film weaves together memories from Ocalan’s life and childhood with the histories and experiences of Kurdish societies. In doing so he traces threads of the resistance of democratic society through the ages, and of its rebirth through the paradigm of democratic modernity.
“Poetic narrative has been inherent in language itself since its origin. For this reason, there is a close relationship between the poem and the truth. The poem represents the language and truth of the ancient free society, which knew no domination. The first poets were those who explained the truth before the sages and prophets. Poetry and poetic expressiveness of a society’s language bear witness to how free and meaningful its social reality is.” – Abdullah Öcalan
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