Rojek
Film poster
Directed byZaynê Akyol
Written byZaynê Akyol
Produced byZaynê Akyol
Sylvain Corbeil
Audrey-Ann Dupuis-Pierre
CinematographyArshia Shakiba
Nicolas Canniccioni
Edited byMathieu Bouchard-Malo
Music byRoger Tellier-Craig
Production
company
Metafilms
Distributed byMaison 4:3
Release date
Running time
128 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguagesKurdish
English
Arabic
French
German

Rojek is a 2022 Canadian documentary film written, directed and produced by Zaynê Akyol.[1] It is about the recovery of Kurdistan from the Rojava–Islamist conflict with a special emphasis on interviews with imprisoned former members of the Islamic State about their motivations.[1] It was selected as the Canadian entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 96th Academy Awards.[2]

Release

The film premiered on April 13, 2022 at the Visions du Réel film festival in Switzerland.[3] It had its Canadian premiere at the 2022 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival.

Awards

At Hot Docs, the film won a Special Jury Prize from the Best Canadian Feature Documentary jury.[4]

It was a Prix Iris nominee for Best Documentary Film at the 25th Quebec Cinema Awards in 2023.[5] It also received nominations for Best Cinematography in a Documentary (Nicolas Canniccioni, Arshia Shakiba) and Best Editing in a Documentary (Mathieu Bouchard-Malo).[5]

The film was shortlisted for the Rogers Best Canadian Documentary Award at the Toronto Film Critics Association Awards 2023.[6]

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