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ROJEK

By Zaynê AKYOL

ANDANA FILMS - as SALES All rights, World

Documentary - Completed 2022

ROJEK converses with some of the most important members of the Islamic State (ISIS), who are currently being detained in Syrian Kurdistan. As a backdrop, a country trying to stay vigilant as it struggles to recover from years of war.

Festivals
& Awards

Seminci - Valladolid IFF 2022

Tiempo de historia

Visions du Réel 2022

Hot Docs 2022

- Year of production
- 2022
- Genres
- Documentary, Female director, Second film
- Countries
- CANADA
- Languages
- ARABIC, ENGLISH, FRENCH, KURDISH
- Duration
- 128 mn
- Director(s)
- Zaynê AKYOL
- Producer(s)
- Audrey-Ann DUPUIS-PIERRE (Metafilms)
- Synopsis
- ROJEK encounters members of the Islamic State, as well as their wives detained in prison camps, who are from all over the world sharing a common dream: establishing a caliphate. The film is an attempt to understand their Muslim fundamentalist beliefs, while recounting the rise and fall of the Islamic State (ISIS) through their personal stories. These intimate conversations are the thread along which the documentary evolves, as it is intertwined with various sequences depicting current, post-war Syrian Kurdistan. Each chapter is going over a specific period and theme, in order to access a point of view that has rarely been heard before.
  
  ROJEK offers an intimate gaze at an unknown reality, right after armed combat, testifying of pivotal moments experienced by the actors of this conflict. Thus, the film tackles how this ideological war is only the beginning of a new kind of threat.

ROJEK

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