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52'/68’, Documentary - Italy, France, Spain, 2023

DON'T COME BACK

Directed by:

Chiara Avesani, Matteo Delbò

Produced by:

INDYCA, YUZU, ARPA FILMS.L.

In co-production with:

Arpa Films

In collaboration with:

Rai Documentari

Written by:

Chiara Avesani, Eva fontanals

Director of Photography:

Matteo Delbò

Produced by:

Francesca Portalupi​, Fabrice Estève

Co-funded by:

European Union

With the support of:

MiC - Direzione Generale Cinema e Audiovisivo, Piemonte Doc Film Fund, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée

You might think that no one wants to go back to a war-torn city, but home is where you have your roots.

Against the advice of friends and family, Ghadeer, a young journalist from Mosul who fled to Belgium during the ISIS occupation, decides to return, giving up a promising future in Europe to embark on the social and cultural reconstruction of his country.

Its goal is to create an independent radio station to send messages of social cohesion and rejection of violence. Together with his team, he will face countless obstacles in an attempt to heal the soul of a war-torn city - physically and socially - and devise inventive strategies to make the initiative economically viable.

Will the voice of Radio One FM be strong enough to bring about the changes its founders dreamed of or will the old system prevail once more?

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