9 jours à Raqqa (2020)

Title: 9 Days at Raqqa
Original Title: 9 jours à Raqqa
Release Date: 2020-10-16
Status: Released
Rating: 8.1/10 (from 7 votes)
Language: FR
Genres: Documentary
Production Companies: Aloest Productions
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.