9 Days in Raqqa

9 Days in Raqqa

6.6/10
1h28min
2020Documentary

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A Kurdish-Syrian mayor, Leila Mustapha, strives to rebuild war-torn Raqqa, aided by a visiting French writer.

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Leila Mustapha is Kurdish and Syrian. Her fight is Raqqa, the former capital of the Islamic state of three hundred thousand inhabitants, reduced to a field of ruin after the war. An engineer by training, mayor at just 30 years old, immersed in a human world, 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.