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EXCLUSIVE: Rome-based income institution True Colours has boarded Norwegian-Kurdish head Halkawt Mustafa’s play No Paradise If You Are Killed by a Woman up of its world premiere Out of Competition astatine nan Venice Film Festival successful September.
Avan Jamal stars arsenic a female Peshmerga sniper who heads to Mosul to rescue her younger sister from ISIS, forcing her to face nan unit she survived and nan shadows of nan personification she has become. The formed besides features Thorbjørn Harr, Kanar Sarchl and Kader Jalal.
Mustafa wrote, directed and produced nan film, which is inspired by years of conversations pinch existent Kurdish women who fought ISIS.
It follows his documentary Hiding Saddam Hussein, taking its cue from nan husbandman who hid nan Iraqi dictator for 235 days successful 2003, and Iraq’s 2016 Oscar submission The Classic.
The head antecedently explored nan world of female Kurdish fighters pinch nan 2015 documentary The Women ISIS Fears.
“We are very happy to collaborate pinch True Colours connected nan film’s world journey. From our first conversations, nan squad understood some nan film’s creator imagination and its cosmopolitan message,” said Mustafa.
The movie is produced by Mustafa, Janne Hjeltnes and John M. Jacobsen for Hene Films, successful co-production pinch The Chimney Pot (Sweden) and La Media (Iraq).
“We are thrilled to beryllium moving connected Halkawt’s film. An immensely engaging cinematic experience, it powerfully portrays nan Kurdish people’s struggle done nan eyes of a heroic female fighter,” said Fabio Tucci, Head of Acquisitions astatine True Colours.
