Filmed during the battle of Kobani, this film reveals the women at the heart of the fight against IS. With stoical perseverance and the aid of American airstrikes, these women are leading the fight for freedom.

Direction: Reber Dosky

Production: Jos de Putter

Cinematography: Reber Dosky

Editing: Rémi van der Heiden

Sound: Taco Drijfhout, Huibert Boon

Original Title: MERYEM

Original Language: Kurdish

Film Production Country: Netherlands

Biography of the Director/s
Reber Dosky (1975, Dohuk/Kurdistan) is a Kurdish-Dutch filmmaker. Living in The Netherlands since 1998, he went studied film direction at the Netherlands Film Academy. He completed his studies with The Call (2013), about the impact of war and displacement on the relation between a father and a son. The Call won several awards on international film festivals. The short documentary the Sniper of Kobani (2015) brought the international breakthrough of Reber Dosky and was awarded at multiple festivals. His feature debut Radio Kobani (2016) premiered at IDFA where it won the national competition. It played at numerous festivals and won 14 awards a.o. at CPHDOX and Camerimage.

Filmography of the Director/s
• Meryem – 2017 - documentary
• Radio Kobani – 2016 – documentary
• Yezidi Girls – 2016 – documentary
• The Sniper of Kobani – 2015 – documentary
• Horsepower – 2015 – fiction
• One Happy Day – 2015 – fiction
• 4Ever – 2014 – documentary
• Lokroep / The Call – 2013 – documentary
• My Good Fortune In Auschwitz – 2012 – documentary

Awards Won
Uppsala Short Film Nominee For The European Film Awards, Special Jury Prize Curta Cinema, Best Documentary Zubroffka, Best Short Award in Non-Fiction Competition Short Shorts

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