Peshmerga

Name: Peshmerga
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2016-06-08
Cast: Bernard-Henri Lévy, Araz Abdulkhadr, Bakhtiyar Muhammad, Ameed Bahram, Mike Barzani

2016 1h 32m 5.7Movie

Documentary

From July to December 2015, with a camera team in tow, Bernard-Henri Lévy journeyed 1,000 km along the frontline separating Iraqi Kurdistan from Islamic State troops. The journey resulted in an illustrated logbook offering a special insight into an unfinished war with a global impact. Alongside the Peshmergas – Kurdish fighters imbued with a spirit of unfailing determination in their fight against obscurantism and jihadism, the film takes us from the heights of Mosul to the heart of the Sinjar mountains, passing the last Christian monasteries threatened with destruction along the way. A tale peopled by real characters, men and women whose faces are rarely seen...