Photograph - courtesy La Biennale
di Venezia
#Venice73
– Film Festival 2016 - Benedetta Argentieri,
Bruno Chiaravalloti, Claudio Jampaglia – Our War. In the documentary, Our War an American ex-Marine, an unemployed
Italian communist, a Swedish bodyguard, with one choice in common: enroll as
volunteers in the Peoples Protection Units (YPG) in Rojava, the region
controlled under Kurdish control in northern Syria. Karim, Joshua and Rafael
are foreign fighters: Westerners who have left their families and their
security to go on the field and fight against the self-declared Islamic State.
Their footage in the most difficult and most important theater of war of recent
decades intersects in the documentary with their daily lives in the United
States, Sweden, and Italy, as does the memory of their dead comrades and their
intention to continue supporting the Kurdish struggle by other means. Their
choices beg a question that regards all of us: who are they fighting for?
Photograph by ASAC - courtesy La
Biennale di Venezia
Benedetta Argentieri,
Bruno Chiaravalloti, Claudio Jampaglia
Our War - Press Conference
After the screening of
Our War the directors and stars during the ten minute applause
Contessanally – moving
documentary about fighting the war on ISIS – 8/10
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