Gulîstan, Land of Roses

Gulîstan, Land of Roses (2016)

Kurdish women fighters wage War on ISIS

TMDb

7.2

23/08/2016 • 1h 24m
original-title

گوڵستان، خاکی گوڵەکان

status

Released

production-companies

mîtosfilm

Peripheria Productions

ONF | NFB

original-language

Kurdish

budget

-

revenue

-

They belong to the armed wing of the PKK, the Kurdistan Workers' Party, which is also an active guerrilla movement. The mission of these female fighters? Defend Kurdish territory in Iraq and Syria, and defeat ISIS (the armed militants of the so-called Islamic State group), all while embodying a revolutionary ideal advocating female empowerment. As filmmaker Zaynê Akyol follows their highly regimented lives, seasoned fighters like Rojen and Sozdar openly share with us their most intimate thoughts and dreams. Even as fighting against ISIS intensifies in the Middle East, these women bravely continue their battle against barbarism. Offering a window into this largely unknown world, Gulîstan, Land of Roses exposes the hidden face of this highly mediatized war: the female, feminist face of a revolutionary group united by a common vision of freedom.

director
production-countries

Canada

Germany

spoken-languages

Kurdish

Turkish

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