2023-09-26 08:00:13
In Sisters in Armsa film released in cinemas in 2019, documentary filmmaker and writer Caroline Fourest portrays the fighters of an international brigade who fight alongside the Kurdish resistance against Daesh in Syria.
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We follow two young French women, Kenza and Yaël, played by Camélia Jordana and Esther Garrel, who engage in this war. At the same time, we follow Zara, a young Yazidi, sold to an ISIS soldier but who manages to escape to join this group of super fighters.
A word for women
If the scenario and the direction of the film do not always ring true, this fiction has the merit of highlighting these warriors, certainly idealized, but fighting against fundamentalism and oppression and for freedom and equality between men and women. in the Middle-East.
“We have often talked about young people joining Daesh, but many young idealists left to fight them. This film is made to raise awareness of these young people engaged in this area. We didn’t take the time to say how courageous it was » , explained to West France, in 2020, the director.
In the second part of the evening, find Syria: women in the warthe rebroadcast of a documentary by Kamal Redouani (Capa production) which gives voice to four Syrian women who tell their stories through a decade of chaos.
On France 2 this Tuesday, September 26, from 9:10 p.m.
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