Inside Lens S2017E23 - My Town at the Break of Dawn

The Kurds are called, "the world's largest ethnic group without their own country." Approximately, 30 million Kurds are living in Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran. In 2014, ISIL militants attacked Kurdish cities. The Kurds rose up to defend their homes. They drove back the militants, and suffered many casualties. But the cities were reduced to rubble. In towns laid waste by ISIL, Kurdish boys and girls are making their own films. Iranian director, Bahman Ghobadi and his colleagues taught the children how to make a film. Ghobadi is also a Kurd. Two years prior, he opened a film school in a refugee camp for Kurdish children who escaped from their own hometowns. Eight of the kids' short films made it to the Berlin Film Festival and drew the world's attention. In 2017, Ghobadi has opened a film school again. Kurdish Children's pain and hope for the future have been woven together...to create two short films