Film Archive

Inside Mosul

Documentary Films - Competition 2018 / V Mosulu / Czech Republic 2018

A shock therapy of news coverage from the war front. Documentarist Jana Andert spent eight months with an elite Iraqi Army unit on the front lines of the battle for Mosul, occupied by Islamic State fighters from 2014 to June 2017. An unflinching report from a city in ruins, robbed of its soul by one of the worst catastrophes of modern times.

Synopsis

In the fall of 2017 Near Eastern reporter and documentarist Jana Andert set out for Mosul, then occupied by Islamic State fighters. She went on her own, without support from the foreign media for which she normally works. With the Golden Division, an elite unit of the Iraqi Army, she risked her life for eight months on the front lines of the battle. During this time she got used to gunfire and rocket explosions, experienced the detonations of suicide bombers and cars packed with explosives, and comforted families grieving their lost loved ones – men, women, and children. A shock therapy of news coverage from the war front. An unflinching report from a city in ruins, robbed of its soul by one of the worst catastrophes of modern times.

Martin Horyna

About the film

72 min / Color, DCP
World premiere
Director Jana Andert / Screenplay Jana Andert / Dir. of Photography Jana Andert / Music Daniel Němec / Editor Tonička Janková / Producer Jan Macola / Production Mimesis Film / Coproduction Česká televize / Contact Mimesis Film / Distributor Pilot Film