Roj Means Sun
dc.contributor.advisor | Greyson, John R. | |
dc.creator | Razavi, Mahsa | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2016-09-20T16:48:13Z | |
dc.date.available | 2016-09-20T16:48:13Z | |
dc.date.copyright | 2016-01-25 | |
dc.date.issued | 2016-09-20 | |
dc.date.updated | 2016-09-20T16:48:12Z | |
dc.degree.discipline | Film And Video | |
dc.degree.level | Master's | |
dc.degree.name | MFA - Master of Fine Arts | |
dc.description.abstract | My thesis project, a 22-minute dramatic film, focuses on the life of ROJIN(12), a young Kurdish-Canadian girl who has just lost her father Agir in a battle in Iraqi Kurdistan. Throughout the film, we follow Rojin as she struggles to cope with his death, eventually finding a new closeness with Beritan, her mother. Roj Means Sun is the story of a young girls struggle to dissociate herself from the protective identity of her mother in order to recreate her identity in a land other than her motherland. Through this story, I want to explore the narrative of Rojins search for identity, which will be told in the context of the human condition of a generation of young immigrant families who have left their homeland due to the suppression of ethnic, religious and socio-political diversities by totalitarian governments. | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10315/32229 | |
dc.language.iso | en | |
dc.rights | Author owns copyright, except where explicitly noted. Please contact the author directly with licensing requests. | |
dc.subject | Middle Eastern studies | |
dc.subject.keywords | Kurdish | |
dc.subject.keywords | Drama | |
dc.subject.keywords | Mother tongue | |
dc.subject.keywords | Motherland | |
dc.subject.keywords | Identity | |
dc.subject.keywords | Coming-of-age | |
dc.subject.keywords | Immigration | |
dc.subject.keywords | War | |
dc.subject.keywords | Grieving | |
dc.subject.keywords | Mourning | |
dc.title | Roj Means Sun | |
dc.type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |