Dream's Gate

Iran

By Negin Ahmadi

Iranian filmmaker Negin Ahmadi travels to the war zone of Northern Syria to follow the lives of the women in the YPJ – an all-female Kurdish militia. Armed only with her camera, she captures the struggles, hopes, and joys of these incredible women, for whom the fight against ISIS is also their way to escape the restraints of a patriarchal society. Weaving together candid moments between the female soldiers with the brutality of combat, Negin creates a personal, visual diary that intimately explores the role of women in battle and examines the cost of achieving equality and freedom in this tumultuous region.

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Film Info

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Title

Dream's Gate

Original title

Darvazeye Royaha

Country

Iran
France
Norway

Spoken language

Kurdish
Farsi

Length

78 Minutes

Color Format

Colour

Crew

Director

Negin Ahmadi

Producers

Elaheh NOBAKHT

Cast

Women Of The YPJ

Director

Negin Ahmadi

Born in 1989 in Iran, Negin Ahmadi is a Kurdish Iranian filmmaker. Ahmadi studied Economics, and finished her Associate’s degree in the university of Imam Khomeini in Qazvin. She is currently a student in Iranian Youth Cinema Society. As a director, she has supervised multiple documentary series and directed a short documentary called A Few Days of Shirin in 2016. Dreams’ Gate will be her first feature documentary.

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