Rojava Film Commune

The Rojava Film Commune was established with the aim to stimulate local film culture by organising film screenings, facilitating discussions about the role of film within society, producing new films, and establishing the Film Academy. Following the 1960 fire in Rojava’s only cinema, which saw the deaths of 298 children trapped inside by regime soldiers, the Commune aims to reclaim cinema and film as a central space of reimagining society: democratising and revolutionising imagination itself.