Content Details
9 Days In Raqqa
Duration: 88’ & 52’
Language: French, English, Arabic, Kurdish
Subtitle: English
Production Year: 2020
Format: 4K
Director: Xavier de Lauzanne
Origin: France
SYNOPSIS
Leila Mustapha is Kurdish and Syrian. Her battle was Raqqa, the former capital of the Islamic State with 300,000 inhabitants, reduced to a field of ruin after the war. An engineer by training, mayor at just 30, immersed in a world of men, her mission is to rebuild her city, to reconcile, and to establish democracy. An extraordinary mission. A French writer crosses Iraq and Syria to meet her. In this still dangerous city, she has 9 days to live with Leila and tell her story in a book.
AWARDS
Cannes 2020, War On Screen Film Festival 2020, Rome Film Festival 2020, Filmfest FrauenWelten -Women’s Worlds Film Festival 2021, Middle East Now and Middle East Now – Summer Nights 2021, Beirut International Women Film Festival (BWFF) 2021, Moldox / International Film Festival for Social Change 2021, PyeongChang International Peace Film Festival 2021, DocLands 2021, Nova Frontier Film Festival 2021, Refugee Film Festival 2021, Gramnet Film Series 2022, Sharjah Art Foundation 2022, HUMAN VISION Film Festival 2022, Stadt Kaarst 2022, ACT Human Rights Film Festival 2022, FICIP 2022 – Special mention in SIGNIS