Two days following the death of Abu Bakr al-Baghadi, Justice for Kurds and Tina Brown hosted a private screening of Caroline Fourest’s first film: Sisters in Arms at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York.
Caroline Fourest, a French journalist, essayist and filmmaker, is an activist for feminism and secularism and is committed to the fight against religious fundamentalism, racism and political extremism.
In her first feature film, Sisters in Arms, Caroline has committed herself to a common struggle for the Kurdish cause.
The film tells the story of Zara, a young Yazidi woman who, after being kidnapped and made a slave by a converted British jihadist, manages to escape and join a brigade of Kurdish women fighters who are trying to overthrow the jihadist regime.
Following the showing, the audience had the honour of attending Caroline’s interview, moderated by Majeed Gly, an award-winning Kurdish journalist from Rudaw media. A question and answer session followed and Caroline explained her approach and engaged with the audience.
With this evening, more than ever, we wanted to pay tribute to our Kurdish friends through the screening of this poignant, dramatic and inspiring film. We wanted, as if by a final appeal, to show and prove their incessant efforts to fight the Islamic state, their bravery and heroism, and to raise awareness of the injustice that afflicts them, the betrayal of the United States and the betrayals that have plagued them for centuries.
The room was filled with emotion as journalists, authors, students, women and men of all backgrounds came together, driven by the same desire, not to remain indifferent to the injustice suffered by the Kurds, an injustice that is not only theirs, an injustice that is also ours because it violates common human rights.