The Kurds have been under intense persecution from the Turks for decades, but during the latest years, the situation worsened significantly, particularly because, apart from the Turkish army and police, the Kurds also had to face Isis. Between 2012 and 2019, the Kurds set up a ‘stateless democracy’ in Rojava, northern Syria, based on local self-governance, gender equality and a communal economy. The Rojava Film Commune was established in 2015, in the middle of the Syrian civil war, to make films based on that region’s reality. The present film is a result of the Commune and its main part was shot in Kobane, in the borders of Turkey, where, at the time, there was a great battle against Isis in Raqqa City and the Turkish army began to bomb Afrin.
The film tells the real story of the resistance of a group of 60 young people who attempted to break the Turkish siege...
The film tells the real story of the resistance of a group of 60 young people who attempted to break the Turkish siege...
- 1/24/2020
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
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