New Life

Film Info

Film Year: 2017

Film Duration: 43 min

Country: Turkey

Language: Kurdish

Director

Veysi Altay

Film Category
Synopsis

New Life, with the slogan ” Woman is life. Life is resistance and resistance is Kobanê”, depicts the daily life of women guerillas, Elif Kobanê (18), Vîyan Peyman and Arjîn, joining in the Womens Protection Units (YPJ) in their battle against ISIS. The documentary relates the ISIS assault of 15 September 2014 and the five-month resistance by the YPJ and Peoples Defense Units (YPG) through the lens of three women fighters.