• Director(s):

    SAULOY (MYLENE)

  • Producer(s):

    ARTE GEIE

  • Territories:

    Worldwide.

  • Production year:

    2018

  • Language(s):

    German, English, French

  • Rights:

    TV, NON-THEATRICAL, INTERNET

Stuck between an aggressive Turkey, a Syrian dictatorship rising from its ashes and scattered criminal Djihadi factions, the small Rojava – recently renamed Democratic Federation of Northern Syria – valiantly leads its feminist revolution.

In the middle of the Syrian chaos, Rojava is home to four million Kurds, Arabs, Syrians and other people who live there peacefully and have signed a surprising “social contract”: gender and economic equality with direct democracy – in a Middle East that is still very much male chauvinistic, multi-ethnic and anti-secularism... All while the region is still ablaze with religious and nationalist intolerance. And yet this ecological and egalitarian social project is never invited to the negotiation tables on the future of Syria. Why does the coalition – which supported the Kurds in their battle against the Islamic State – now refuse to recognize their de facto autonomy in this province that spans a third of the Syrian territory?