HUMAN RIGHTS DOX
The Phantom Pain of Rojave
Director
Maryam Ebrahimi
Producer
Stina Gardell
Cinematographer
Guillaume Briquet
Editor
Amalie Tjellesen Westerlin
Sound
Anna Nilsson
Jan Alvemark
Website
Contact
Mantaray Film AB
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2026
Sweden, Norway
81 min
Color
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.
Directors' Biography
Maryam Ebrahimi is an Emmy Award-winning Swedish-Iranian documentary filmmaker, director, producer and journalist. Her raw, socially engaged work focuses on human rights, feminism and the socio-political realities of the Middle East.
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