2020 | France | Documentary

9 Days in Raqqa

  • Arabic, English, French, Kurdish - 88 mins
  • Director | Xavier de Lauzanne
  • Writer | -
  • Producer | Xavier de Lauzanne, François-Hugues de Vaumas

STATUS: Released

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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.

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