Syria's Ticking Time Bomb + Shorts + Q&A

Despite the territorial defeat of ISIS in Syria, the jihadi group remains a significant threat. Rojava in Northeastern Syria faces the challenge of dealing with 12,000 detained ISIS fighters and some 56,000 ISIS family members.

Plus documentary THE THIRD EXILE; It is obvious that women and children are the most affected by war and conflict. The Maraş massacre caused many people to lose their lives and even more people to lose their homes, property, memories and to migrate. The Third Exile is a documentary film that traces the traumas of the women who lived through the massacre, starting from the director's family to the women who still live in Maraş and those who migrated from Maraş. The documentary examines the knowledge that trauma is passed on to future generations through genes and the impact of the environment on trauma. It also looks at the links between confrontation, forgiveness, time and migration on the forgetting of trauma, and fiction short MOTHER LOVE; Anatolia, Turkey 2022, the elderly Keke is seriously ill. As support her son Ali has come from Germany with his daughter Hazal to the wintry mountainous scenery of the Kurdish region in Turkey. For 21-year-old Hazal, this is a journey into a completely unknown world. She has never been interested in her family's Alevi-Kurdish roots. But when she learns her grandmother's last wish, that she wants to be buried with her old suitcase, her curiosity is awaken. The story of the suitcase reveals to Hazal the tragedy of her family, which is marked by indiscriminate violence and state abuse of power, by oppression and displacement, but also by a mother's deep love for her child and the strength of a woman who surpasses herself in suffering.