Peshmerga

Name: Peshmerga
Director: Bernard-Henri Lévy
Released: 2016

Bernard-Henri Lévy 2016

From July to December 2015, Bernard-Henri Lévy and a team of cameramen travelled the 1000 km of the frontline that separates Iraqi Kurdistan from Daesh’s troupes. From this journey, comes a logbook in images that offers a privileged view of a war that is unfinished but whose stakes are of global importance. In close quarters with the Peshmergas, these Kurdish fighters who show unfailing determination in their fight against obscurantism and jihadi fundamentalism, the film takes us from the heights of Mosul to the heart of the Sinjar Mountains passing on the way via the last Christian monasteries threatened with destruction.

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Running Time:

91 min.

Spoken Languages:

Arabic, English, French, Kurdish, English, French

Subtitles:

English

Directors:

Bernard-Henri Lévy

Producers:

François Margolin

Production Companies:

MARGO CINEMA

Conflicts

French Cinema and Cult..

Middle Eastern Studies

Military

War

Festival Participation

Cannes Film Festival - 2016
CPH:DOX - 2017
New York Jewish Film Festival - 2017
IDFA - 2016

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