The Wedding Parade

Shamima Begum and Hoda Muthana made it into worldwide headlines when they left their countries to join ISIS. When they return, their countries don't want them back.

In a city ravaged by war, while society tries to cope with the consequences of war, a small girl found a peculiar way to survive. Home is the first short shot in the city of Raqqa, former capital of the Islamic State in Syria, after it has been liberated. The film reflects on the trauma of war through the powerful gaze of her young director, Syrian filmmaker Sevinaz Evdike, who has experienced it in first person.

A reflection on war, as seen through the lives of three Kurdish women belonging to the Kongreya Star movement—women who resist and dream, forging paths toward autonomy and empowerment at the heart of the conflict in Rojava, Syrian Kurdistan. A poetic testimony to the courage, solidarity, and indomitable hope that can spring forth even in a land ravaged by devastation.