Letters from Shengal

Nameyên ji Şengal

In the Summer of 2014, the Islamic State invaded Shengal, the Ezidi capital in Kurdistan (Iraq). The plan was to exterminate the ethnical/religious minority who were despised and called “devil worshippers’. 5000 Ezidi men have been killed, and 7000 women and children have been taken into slavery. This film tells Shengal’s liberation through the stories of five partisans who are five archetypes of the many that came to fight against the Islamic State from several different countries.

Director

Dersim Zerevan

Screenplay

Fariborz Kamkari

Status

Released

Release date

30/09/2022

Original language

Kurdish