Our War

Why do people join a foreign militia to fight a war that is not theirs? This was one the main questions we asked ourselves when we started thinking about this project. With Claudio Jampaglia and Bruno Chiravalloti — co-directors with me — we tried to answer but that wasn’t enough. We  wanted to go further, and take a step in an unknown direction. We started thinking of  the war in Syria in a different way and that it was way closer than anyone in Western world wanted to admit. As we went deeper into the subject of foreigners joining the battle against the so-called Islamic State, we decided not to take a stand on their decision but leave that judgement on the public.

The result of 14 months of work is Our War, a 68 minutes documentary which was presented at the 73 edition of the Venice Film Festival.

If you want to know more please visit the website.

You can watch the trailer on Vimeo.

Technical scheet
Color : color
Format : Full HD, mini DV
Time : 68’
Languages : Arabic, English, Italian, Kurdish
Subtitles : English, Italian
Year : 2016
Directors : Benedetta Argentieri, Bruno Chiaravallotti, Claudio Jampiglia
Protagonists : Joshua Bell, Karim Franceschi, Rafael Kardari
Screenplay : Benedetta Argentieri, Claudio Jampiglia
Cinematography : Bruno Chiaravallotti
Syrian footage : Karim Franceschi, Cyril Hellman, Ypg Media Center
Italian footage : Annalisa Brambilla, Matteo Finazzi
Go-Pro footage : Rafael Kardari
Editing : Bruno Chiaravallotti, Chiara Vullo
Sound : Bruno Chiaravallotti, Claudio Jampiglia
Original Music : Vittorio Cosma
Original song “Our Wa” : Vittorio Cosma, Eugenio Finardi
Music production : Ala Bianca Edizioni
Video Post-production : Riccardo Annoni, Stefano Barozzi – Start
Audio Post-production : Andrea Pestarino – Bravagente
Subtitles : Andrea Terradura
Swedish producer : Kovan Alshawish
Produced by : Lorenzo Gangarossa, PossibileFilm, RaiCinema