Dream's Gate
Original Title
Darvazeye Royaha- Director: Negin Ahmadi
- Writer: Negin Ahmadi
- Producer: Håvard Wettland Gossé, Elaheh Nobakht, Reza Taba
CGiii Comment
Dream's Gate is an observational documentary where Iranian female director Negin Ahmadi starts a personal journey into the combat zone of North Syria to question what it means to be a woman. Alone with her camera, she decides to look for an answer for her questions by encountering the women who embody the strongest contemporary myth of female strength and freedom: Kurdish female fighters. The personal search and internal struggles turn into an intimate women diary written in the first person. Following, sharing, witnessing the life of this other Kurdish women put into question the image that the director has of herself and of the cost of equality and freedom in this difficult region.
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