The final battle for the capital of the “Islamic State”.
The Road to Raqqa
The road to Raqqa, the self-proclaimed capital of the “Islamic State”, has been long and hard. Now encircled by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and their allies, the world’s largest terror group resorts to mining roads and houses, deploying suicide bombers, snipers and weaponised drones. This was the most dangerous and unpredictable film our crew has worked on so far. It also became a testament to the bloody territorial demise of a cult that uprooted millions of lives across Iraq and Syria and contributed to the largest refugee crisis of our time.
There are three stops on the road leading to the Raqqa frontline: the Women’s Protection Units (YPJ) base, the first medical point and the foreign volunteers camp. With unprecedented access, we managed to document their struggles in the final weeks before the fall of Raqqa.
