With a deeply personal touch and an unique access, Emmy Award-winning director Maryam Ebrahimi captures the hopes and dreams of a group of Kurdish guerrillas. Once celebrated as global heroes in the war against ISIS, they now find themself abandoned by their allies. The Phantom Pain of Rojava is a post-war story set in Rojava, an autonomous Kurdish region in northern Syria, where Ebrahimi follows four friends in a house for wounded soldiers over the course of five years.

Production
Director: Maryam Ebrahimi

Producer: Stina Gardell

Associate Producer: Mirjam Gellhorn

Cinematographer: Guillaume Briquet

Additional cinematography: Maryam Ebrahimi

Editor: Amalie Tjellesen Westerlin

Composer: Katharina Nuttall

Audio Design: Anna Nilsson, Jan Alvemark
Grade: Fredrik Harreschau

Co-Producer: Stine Ann Skaret / Stray Dogs (NO)


A Mantaray Film production, with the support from: The Swedish film institute, The Norwegian film institute, IDF Enterprise Documentary Fund, Inmaat Foundation, The Fritt Ord Foundation, The Swedish Arts Grants Committee, Women Make Movies

Developed with the support from: The Creative Europe Programme – Media of the European Union
 
In co-production with Stray Dogs Norway, Film Stockholm
 
In association with SVT, TVO Media Education Group, Chicken & Egg Films

Information
Pitched at Nordisk Forum 2021, Hot Docs Deal Maker 2022, IDFA Forum Central Pitch 2022

Director Maryam Ebrahimi is the 2021 Chicken & Egg Award Recipient