9 Days in Raqqa (2020)

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Leila Mustapha is Kurdish and Syrian. Her battle was Raqqa, the former capital of the Islamic State with 300,000 inhabitants, reduced to a field of ruin after the war. An engineer by training, mayor at just 30, immersed in a world of men, her mission is to rebuild her city, to reconcile, and to establish democracy there. An extraordinary mission. A French writer crosses Iraq and Syria to meet her. In this still dangerous city, she has 9 days to live with Leila and tell her story in a book.

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Saint Pauly

Like meeting someone way younger than you at a hookah bar and discovering she's done more in a couple of years than you could do in several lifetimes. At 30, Leila Mustapha became mayor of Raqqa, a city in Northern Syria, after allied forces kicked out the Daesh. This is the story of a French biographer who spent nine days with Ms Mustapha to get enough fodder for a book. The story is fascinating, the images haunting and the music by Ibrahim Maalouf accompanies the film like sweet smoke. The approach might be a little too detached for a sensitive soul like mine, but that doesn't hurt the film overall.

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