Film: Gulîstan, Land of Roses, dir. Zaynê Akyol

2016 | 86 minutes
Country of Production: Canada
Country/Culture Featured: Iraqi Kurdistan

Witness a depiction of modern warfare told through the eyes of women soldiers. In the mountains of Kurdistan, a left-wing military force works to keep its territory safe from the aggressive Islamic State. Remarkably, one of the army’s greatest assets is an all-female regiment, made more legendary and fearsome by ISIS’s belief that men killed by women on the battlefield are denied eternal paradise.

AMNH 2017 Mead Film Festival