The Road to Raqqa (2017)

The road to Raqqa the selfproclaimed capital of the Islamic State has been long and hard Now encircled the worlds largest terror group resorts to boobytrapping roads and houses as well as deploying suicide bombers snipers and grenadedropping drones This was the most dangerous and unpredictable film our crew has worked on It also became a testament to the territorial demise of a cult that uprooted the lives of millions of people 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 Womens Protection Units YPJ base the first medical point and the foreign volunteers camp With unprecedented access we managed to document what each of them face in the final weeks before the fall of Raqqa