Filmmaker and acclaimed freelance journalist Kevin McKiernan poses this question at the outset of this stirring, provocative film shot in part by legendary cinematoghrapher Haskel Wexler. It's all in how you define good and bad. Good Kurds are those in Iraq: they're Saddam Hussein's victims, whome we want to help. Bad Kurds are those waging an armed insurrection against Turkey, an American ally: they're at the receiving end of U.S. weaponry. McKierman went to northern Iraq to cover the uprising against Saddam Hessein. Just a few miles away, no one was covering the hidden was in Turkey. McKierman determined he would report th estory independently. Good Kurds, Bad Kurds brings sharp claroty to a complicated history, while providing disturbing insight into immigration practices and U.S. foreign policy.
