9 DAYS IN RAQQA

9 JOURS A RAQQA

By Xavier DE LAUZANNE

TASKOVSKI FILMS - as SALES

Social issues - Completed 2020


Festivals
& Awards

Cannes Film Festival 2020
Documentary Competition
    • Year of production
    • 2020
    • Genres
    • Social issues, Documentary
    • Countries
    • FRANCE
    • Languages
    • FRENCH, KURDISH, ARABIC, ENGLISH
    • Duration
    • 88 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Xavier DE LAUZANNE
    • Writer(s)
    • Xavier DE LAUZANNE
    • Producer(s)
    • François-Hugues DE VAUMAS (ALOEST FILMS)
    • 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 there. 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.