Rojek

Zaynê Akyol Canada 2022 128 min.

An encounter with former fighters of the Islamic State who are imprisoned in a heavily guarded prison camp in Syrian Kurdistan. From honest conversations with jihadists about their fundamentalist beliefs, we gain an unseen insight into their motivations and the rise and fall of the Islamic State. An intimate yet disconcerting look at an unknown reality, set against the backdrop of a country recovering from years of war.