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 Gelhorn
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: KriStine Ann Skaret & Sarah Winge-Sørensen / 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
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