No Free Steps to Heaven

Israeli filmmaker Itai Anghel went inside Syria and Iraq in January 2015 to document the fight against ISIS. He interviews imprisoned ISIS fighters who tell him what led them to beheading, burning, raping and killing everybody who is different from them. He also goes on a journey with the Kurdish guerrilla, which is the only force who has dared confront ISIS on the ground and managed to gain ground on them. The Kurdish women guerrilla fighters became the nightmare of ISIS: Apparently, if a woman kills an ISIS fighter he will not get to heaven and will not win the 72 virgins who, according to his belief, are awaiting him the moment he dies a martyr. A lot of women join the guerrilla also for feminist reasons because it is the only organisation where there is a complete equality between women and men fighters. The film witnesses the dismantling of Iraq and Syria as the states we knew. Itai Anghel with his films tries to open Israelis to the people and thoughts in the Arab world instead of giving in to the fear that is inflicted on them by the Israeli government.