A Moving Film About the “Living Dead” Who Defeated IS
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- The documentary “The Living Dead in Rojava” portrays Kurdish freedom fighters who fought Islamic State in Kobane in 2015.
- Critic Fredrik Sahlin calls the film moving, focusing on war’s psychological scars, the outside world’s betrayal, and the fighters’ continued humanity.
Maryam Ebrahimi’s “The Living Dead in Rojava” looks at Kurdish freedom fighters who battled Islamic State in Kobane in 2015. The film does not present war as something that ends when the fighting stops. It follows the lingering pain carried by those who survived it.
Fredrik Sahlin describes the documentary as deeply moving. His reading centers on the phantom wounds of war, the sense of betrayal left by the outside world, and the people who refuse to surrender their humanity.
The film’s title points to lives shaped by conflict but not emptied of conscience. Its subjects are presented as fighters who faced IS and endured the aftermath without allowing the violence to define everything they became.
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Originally published by Dagens Nyheter in Swedish. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.
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