9 Days at Raqqa 2020
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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.
- Released: 2020-10-16
- Runtime: 88 minutes
- Genre: Documentary
- Stars:
- Director: Xavier de Lauzanne, François-Hugues de Vaumas, Ibrahim Maalouf
