Jiyan's Story

The fascinating story of Jiyan, a female guerrilla fighter who devoted twenty years of her life in the Kurdish militant struggle, reveals women’s determination for freedom not only against another oppressive regime, but also against the patriarchy. Jiyan Tolhildan is a young Kurdish woman living in the Kurdish region of Syria . After years of oppression by her family, her teachers and the society as a whole, Jiyan decides to go to the mountains to join the Kurdish struggle for freedom. When the Arab Spring breaks out Jiyan and her friends decide to go into the cities in Syria to join the protests. They also set out to educate Syrian women on women’s rights in the Rojava region . Now, six years after the Arab Spring, Kurdish forces have a semi-autonomous region in Syria. For the first time in history, women have an autonomous political organisation and an army in Syria. The women named creating this organisation “the women’s revolution.”

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Jiyan's Story är en dokumentärfilm från 2017, regisserad av A. Halûk Ünal. I en av huvudrollerna ses Jiyan Tolhildan.

Med en speltid på 1 timmar och 20 minuter är Jiyan's Story en produktion från Greece. Originalspråket är engelska. Hos tittarna har filmen ett snittbetyg på 9.0 av 10 baserat på 1 röster. På Filmotek uppdaterar vi löpande var du kan streama, hyra eller köpa Jiyan's Story i Sverige.