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un film di BERNARD-HENRI LEVY
From July to December 2015, Bernard-Henri Lévy, along with a camera crew, traveled the 1,000 kilometers on the frontline separating Iraqi Kurdistan from Daesh troops. from this journey resulted in a reportage of images that offer a privileged perspective on an unfinished war, but one whose stakes are of global importance. Thus documenting to closely the lives of the peshmerga, the Kurdish fighters who show unwavering determination in the fight against obscurantism and jihadist fundamentalism, the film takes us from the heights of Mosul to the heart of the Sinjar Mountains via the last Christian monasteries threatened by destruction. Extraordinary characters emerge from the narrative, men and women who leave their mark and whom one rarely has the opportunity to meet.
It was the spring of 2015.
I made a report in Iraqi Kurdistan.
I had to Paris six of the commanding officers come. Their determination, their courage, their being on the front lines of the worldwide fight against Daesh, their loneliness-all of this struck me deeply.
As soon as they arrived, they wanted to go to the Bataclan and then to the Hypercacher to Porte de Vincennes, for a moment of recollection.
We spent at to discussing possible strategies to counter this rapidly expanding terrorist threat.
And the idea has emerged that although Daesh is a force that can strike anywhere, anytime and suddenly, although this new enemy is mostly elusive and invisible, nevertheless there is a place in this world where it has its bases, its brains, its training and command camps, its rear-guards-and that there, it can be attacked.
This place is the "Islamic State."
Right in front to me I had "Peshmerga" (literally: "those who go to their death") directly involved in the fighting against those murderers.
_The idea was thus born to go and meet these legendary warriors, to share, as much as possible, their hopes, their dreams, their daily lives, their struggle; and to do this, it was necessary to commit to follow the long front line, which from South to North, from the border with Iran to the border with Syria, runs for a thousand kilometers and separates them from the jihadists; and on the basis of this journey, make a film... _
Bernard-Henri Levy
directed from **Bernard-Henri Lévy **.
with the collaboration of Gilles Hertzog and Aziz Othman
produced from François Margolin
camera crew Ala Hoshyar Tayyeb, Olivier Jacquin, Camille Lotteau
editing Camille Lotteau
sound Antoine Bailly, Jean-Daniel Bécache, Thomas Fourel
original soundtrack Nicolas Ker, Jean-Fabian Dijoud, Henri Graetz
special thanks to NechirvanBargain, Safeen Dizayee, Hoshmand Othman
With the cooperation of Brigadier General Hazhar O. Ismaïl
and Sliva Cegerxwin's
with Peshmerga Araz Abdulkhadr, Bakhtiyar Muhammad, Ameed Bahram, Mike Barzani, Sirwan Barzani, Ahmed Gardi, Maghdid Harki, Sheikh Jafar, Kemal Kirkuki, Sabah Zangana, General Harass, Shwan Muhammad Gharib, Hussein Yazdanpanah
and with Timothy Mosa Alshamany, Jacques Bérès, Baba Cawis, Saïd Gabari, Helly Luv, Heero Muhaimedeen, Michaeel Najeeb
a MARGO CINEMA production
With the support of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG).
co-produced with ARTE FRANCE CINEMA
in collaboration with CANAL PLUS and ARTE FRANCE
international sales ORANGE STUDIO
is a French philosopher and one of the most respected and widely read writers in Europe. He is the author of more than 30 books, including works of philosophy, fiction, and biographies. _American Vertigo: Traveling America in the Footsteps of Tocqueville _was a "New York Times bestseller" in 2006. This was followed by the English-language books Left in Dark Times: to Stand Against the New Barbarism in 2008 and, with Michel Houellebecq, _Public Enemies: Dueling Writers Take on Each Other and the World _in 2011. Published in 2013, Les Aventures de la Verité - Peinture et philosophie, explored the historical interaction between philosophy and art. The book was written on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name that Lévy curated for Fondation Maeght to Saint Paul de Vence in 2013. His show, Hotel Europe, which premiered to Sarajevo on June 27, 2014, presented at the 58th Festival dei Due Mondi, was a rallying cry about the crisis facing the European project and the dream behind it.