9 Days at Raqqa (movie)
9 jours à Raqqa- User score: 8.1
- Production country: France
- Producer: Xavier de Lauzanne
- Production companies: Aloest Productions
- Genre: Documentary
- Release date: 10/16/2020
- Run time: 88 min.
Movie description
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.
