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It was a hot summer day in Berlin
and I stared at the news images.
"The city of Minbij in Northern Syria
had been liberated from ISIS by the Kurds. "
All they showed was: black Islamic State symbols on the ruins of the buildings.
Women in burkas ran towards the female Kurdish fighters.
They took off their burkas and colourful dresses appeared underneath.
The female fighters told them that they were safe now.
That day, I decided to go to Minbij.
A short time afterwards, I arrived in Rojava,
the Kurdish region in Northern Syria.
The commanders told me
it was much too dangerous to go to Minbij.
Instead, they took me to a military academy.
There I met Hala, who trusted me to tell her story.
Slowly, slowly. .
Your legs should be like this, so you don't get tired.
Easy, easy. .
Go!
I came like many women to Rojava,
because we believed in this political project as a feminist revolution
and wanted to support it.
I had big dreams, but no idea about the reality.
Thanks, Comrade!
In Kurdish: Antonia wants to ask her some questions. Can you translate?
She wants to ask you something.
Comrade Jiyan, do you understand me?
Because my Kurdish isn't very good.
You're from Minbij right? - Yes.
We want to ask her some questions. - In Arabic: She wants to ask you some questions.
Are you ready? - Yes.
Are you ready? Or do you have a problem with an interview? - I'm ready.
Can she sit next to her, so her translator is in the shot?
Sit next to me, so you can translate.
Comrade Jiyan, let me know if you don't understand my Kurdish.
I'll try my best to speak properly.
Relax, don't be embarrassed.
How long has she been with the police force and why?
What's your name? - Hala Mostafa.
Is that the emergency alarm? - No, it's an exercise.
Why did you join the police? - Why did you join the police?
Because of all the injustice I've seen.
Because of the cruelty she's seen.
And I want to liberate all the women of Minbij.
She wants to liberate all women.
Who didn't accept it?
Her family, her parents.
When she decided to join the police, her family didn't accept it.
Do they accept her now? - Do they accept you now? - No.
I came with my sister. - Her sister joined the police, too.
She and her sister. - They joined together?
My sister was forced to get engaged to an ISIS guy.
Her sister was forced to get engaged to an ISIS guy.
Forced to? - Yes.
I was forced to get engaged to someone as well.
To someone from ISIS? - No.
She was forced to get engaged, too, but she escaped.
To an ISIS fighter? - No, but my younger sister was 16.
Her sister was 16 when they forced her to get engaged to an ISIS fighter.
Do you see your sister? - Do you see your sister?
Yes, I do. She also joined the police, but she's in Minbij now.
But you were separated, right?
Yes, then she joined the police. - They were separated, then she joined the police.
Hala ran away from her family together with her sister Sosan
when the Kurds took over the city of Minbij from ISIS.
Hala also told me about her other sisters, who are still at home
She told me her family supported ISIS.
And when she returns to Minbij, she wants to take her sisters away from home.
There are blankets in the store.
There are lots of blankets in the other room, they'll bring them.
There are enough here. - They'll bring them in the night.
Those who have two can wash one.
Can you bring me the curling iron? I need it.
This is the box, but only my sunglasses are in it.
Show me your sunglasses. - Here.
These are from my sister, and the others are from Seyar.
Did he give them to you?
Where's the thread?
Give me the thread, throw it to me.
Will you teach me how to use the thread? - Where's the mirror?
Where are the brown ones?
Give them to me. Shame on you, you're a soldier!
Amera, hey! Will you teach me how to use the thread?
Let's all go outside in sunglasses. That'll give them a shock!
Look girls, this is a letter from my sister.
"Hala, how are you and how is Sosan?
There's no one with me and no one speaks to me. "
Sosan was in love with my cousin. "Jihad is here, he came yesterday. .
I think nobody. .
I think nobody is on my side.
If you come back, they'll take you to Jarabulus and kill you.
They want to. .
They want to curse you.
Yesterday, Ruba said bad things about you and I told her: 'You should die for Hala. '
She told my father and he hit me.
Hala, if you want me to poison them, just tell me and I'll do it. "
My sister is 10 years old. - 10 years old?
"Hala, Sosan. Look, about wearing a headscarf: your uncle. . "
How many? - My sisters? There are ten of us.
Ten sisters? Praise be to God.
There will be justice. You think I won't go back for them? - How many boys? - Two.
They are ten girls and two boys.
These are my younger sisters.
The phone's password is their names.
I raised my sisters.
I fed them with powdered milk.
They slept beside me, one on either side.
Look at this, she was upset because they wouldn't let her leave.
She's doing this.
This is my little sister, the youngest one.
She tells me about everything that's going on at home.
She takes a phone and pretends to play with it, but it's to tell me every little detail.
What's wrong, Nadia?
What is it? What's wrong?
It's saying "meow"!
What's wrong with it?
Where is it? Look there.
I wonder where it's going.
Where did it go?
When I fire my rifle, it means there's an ambush.
Be quiet!
Last one in the line get up! Go!
Watch what's happening in front of you, hurry up!
Get down!
Protect yourself!
Move on!
I'm going to fire off a round.
Swing it into position like this. Swing it up to here. .
Then here.
Yes, I know that. - Comrade. .
Your hand should be down here, like this.
Let's go, Abir.
Abir, Abir! Hold it at the top.
Like this?
You're holding it like this, but it should be parallel to your hand.
ISIS was looking for any reason to blame us and take us.
One ISIS guy said: "I'll take her. " Another one said: "I'll take her. "
And my father said: "That's it, my daughter's engaged to a top ISIS commander.
They can't bother me or take me anymore. "
But my heart was on fire.
I wasn't OK. When I tried to go to sleep, I couldn't, I was burning.
We stayed for two days.
I was with my sister, she gave birth to a baby.
I came back and found my father and a man. It was the son of my father's business partner.
He's like a brother to me. I hadn't expected this sale.
The money was already in front of him.
As if he was buying something? - Exactly, as if he was buying something.
When I came in, my father said to me: "This is your fiancé "
I didn't know whether to laugh or cry. What was I supposed to do?
You don't know how surprising it was.
I came into the room and that was that. I told him:
"I'm not like my sisters, I'm not like other girls: I don't want to be that.
I won't accept this kind of marriage or being under anyone's control.
I was born free, and I'll die free.
I've lived for 20 years without a man, and I can live another 100 without one. "
And it got worse: he beat me really, really badly.
But I didn't break. I didn't shed a tear, not a single one.
I don't need a man.
Everything we've suffered has been because of men.
They're not brothers or uncles: they'd sell you at the drop of a hat.
And if you complained to your father, he'd break your back.
What man in the world would you trust?
Who's going to protect you if the father who raised you won't?
When I joined the police force they said: "You have no honour.
You have no dignity, no honour!"
I said: "When you wanted to sell me to a foreigner or to ISIS,
not knowing what would happen,
where was your dignity, your honour? What were you thinking?"
Nobody protects my honour except myself, and I came here to do that.
One, two, three. .
Don't hold the scarf.
Come on, that's cheating. Replace her with Midiya!
Midiya and Sozy!
Sozy you take the scarf, you can do it.
Sozy! Sozy!
We have to tell about the reality of men, talk about what they're like.
We don't want to distort their reality, we only want to tell the truth!
We want to clarify the reality of men.
OK?
A man is interested in that one night, to satisfy his lust.
Afterwards, he doesn't care about anything.
After that night, he would open the door and kick you out, if he could.
I want to tell all of my comrades here
that everything to do with marriage and love is a lie.
I no longer believe in the idea of marriage and love.
Many men have asked me to marry them, but I refused. I'll never marry again.
I promise, I promise, I promise that I will sacrifice myself to this duty.
My dream is to go to the frontline,
carry a weapon, and increase my power.
Step back!
At ease! Get ready!
Minbij, Minbij, Minbij, you are my mother, Minbij.
Lemon trees, lemon trees. . Take me to Minbij!
Marriage is an instrument for suffocating women.
And women are supposed to just believe it's their destiny.
But Comrades, who writes a woman's destiny? The woman herself.
If a woman truly develops herself, improves her discipline and character
and progresses intellectually, can she accept things as they are?
Men know that if women stand on their own two feet, they can change the world drastically.
Because for 5,000 years, only men have been in charge.
For 5,000 years, men have only subordinated us.
They know that if women rise up, they will change the world.
Freedom isn't just about the liberation of the Kurdish people.
Freedom isn't just the feeling
that you have to carry a gun and fight against ISIS.
In order to emancipate ourselves,
it's not enough
to have clear political or military skills.
I don't see freedom in that way.
These are just some aspects of freedom,
but not all of it.
Genuine freedom is this moment:
every single woman in the Middle East and everywhere else
is liberated.
Only then will I feel that I'm free.
I am a stranger, stranger. .
I dream. . my heart's wounds. .
This is so beautiful.
We should make another one.
I should make a gun for it.
Take steady aim at your target!
Safety off!
On my count. .
Steady, steady. .
Stay steady!
They knocked on our door at 2 a. m. and told us to go outside.
It was just behind our house, at night.
They tied her hands and threw her into a big hole in the ground.
She was screaming: "I'm innocent!"
She had two boys and a girl.
They brought a pile of stones.
They didn't stone her, they just dug the hole. But they ordered the boys to start stoning her.
The girl was crying, little kids were crying, everyone was crying.
They forced them to stone their mother.
Their father had left them two years before, he didn't care about them.
And they told her father: "You have to stone her. "
She said to her father: "I'm innocent. "
He told her: "I know, but I can't do anything. "
They started to stone her and she started to cry, and the blood. .
You can't imagine, the blood was everywhere, it was so shocking.
They were using small stones. But the father brought big ones and he hit her on the head.
He wanted to make it quick. But they were using small ones, just to make her suffer more.
She was completely covered in blood. And we stood and watched.
The worst and most painful thing was that we couldn't do anything.
I have received my training
at the Rojava Police Force's
Martyr Monzur Academy
in order to create
an ethical and political society.
I will use all my power to put my training into practice,
in order to protect
the moral and material values
according to. .
When the academy was finished, Hala's sister Sosan came to pick her up.
Look, Hala.
Speak Arabic to her.
Don't worry, she follows me with her camera wherever I go.
If I say "inside", she's inside, if i say "outside", she's outside.
If I go upstairs, she goes with me. If I go downstairs, she goes with me.
If I go to Minbij, will you follow me?
Let's go! - Yes.
Hala and Sosan crossed the Euphrates
and returned to Minbij.
And I followed them.
I need clothes.
When I arrived at Minbij police station
I realised that Hala and Sosan would be living there from now on.
Sosan!
Wake up, my dear.
I haven't slept much, I got here a while ago. - When did you come?
Wake up, Sosan, it's 9:30!
I'll go and you stay, so you get to be in. .
Stop it! Calm down!
My God, look at us!
I'll keep it in my locker.
Look at yourself!
No really, look at your face. .
I'm going now. - Where to? - Look at you. Let me fix your hair.
Butterflies, butterflies. - Yes, put on some butterflies.
Of course, sister.
Off you go, I've made you look pretty.
Without any reason? - No reason, no reason at all.
He's already attacked my father and mother, and today it was my turn.
He beat me with a belt. If this woman hadn't helped me, he might've killed me.
Are you a neighbour?
Yes. He held a knife to my throat. She tried to calm him down
while he shouted: "I'm going to kill her!"
He put it to her throat, threatening to kill her.
What was the reason?
He fights with everyone, including his father.
About beating the children: he interferes in everything.
OK, then we'll bring him in and hold him accountable for this.
Are you a widow, do you have your own house?
No, I don't. I'm living with my parents.
You should have one, it's your right from your husband's family.
It's alright. Wait here, I'll send a unit after him.
I'll let you know when I get to the hospital.
If I have to change my location, I'll be going Isa Abu Rehab's house,
directly behind the hospital, a house with a black gate.
You know it? The house next to the garden?
The garden behind the hospital.
The house next to the garden, behind the Hospital. Zahra, do you know where is it?
No, but Isa Abu Rehab is a distant cousin.
Yes, that cousin.
Maybe it's better if I come. - No, no! There's no need.
I'm now 20 years old, and soon I'll be turning 21.
And I'll never think, even if I live to 100. .
It doesn't matter who it is, it could be your parents or anyone.
If you'd lived with someone for ten days, you'd miss him if he was gone.
I'm 20, I lived with them most of my life.
Do you think it was easy for me to leave my parents and my sisters?
We are ten girls, seven are younger then me.
Do you think it was easy for me to leave them behind?
Abu Shakep. .
I don't want to be a weak link.
You know, 62 men from my clan, my cousins, joined ISIS.
42 have been killed, the rest are still fighting with ISIS.
I get death and kidnapping threats every day.
Everyone has their different reasons for joining the force.
Some people like to carry weapons. - I like to carry weapons!
But it's not about carrying a weapon, people misuse it.
True. - Anyone can carry a weapon, but you have to know its value.
I hardly ever use my weapon, only in emergencies.
When I go on police operations, I always have my gun with me.
But apart from that, I just have my own gun with me.
And most of the time a grenade too. Not that I would use it.
But I have it with me. It's for myself.
For any time, just in case. .
Minbij and the whole surrounding area
has been liberated, and it's under our control
and we're protecting it.
But it's not yet completely free of ISIS, right? - True.
There have been assassinations, but not the female police officers,
we're the weak link, we could get kidnapped.
So I'd rather detonate my grenade and die
than be kidnapped by ISIS.
So the town hall won't do it? - No, they've gone to get them from there.
Really? - Yes. - Alright, then.
Why didn't you save a place for planting some flowers. - What?
I said you should plant some flowers.
Sir, where are you going? - Get inside, welcome.
We're going to 30th Street.
You can drive along this road.
Drive straight on.
Go, man, go
Morning!
She wants to join with six other girls.
With six girls? - Yes.
I'll inform my commander so we can pick them up.
Go and wait there. .
I told my brother, I want my son. It's been a week.
I don't know where he wants to put him. In an orphanage?
"Bring him home," I said, "he's not going to Turkey!"
I said: "I want my boy. " He said: "He's not yours, he belongs to the people. "
I said: "I love my son as much as you love your five children. "
He repeated: "He's not your son. Look after yourself, put on make-up, marry again. "
I told him: "If you don't bring him tomorrow, I'll find him myself. "
Then he suddenly started hitting me.
Your brother hit you? - Yes, my own brother beat me.
I told him: "I want my son. I don't want to marry again. "
Then he got a knife from the kitchen, he wanted to kill me.
My neighbour, his wife and the whole family witnessed it.
I escaped from him and went to the military forces.
They brought me here.
He's your own flesh and blood. We've seen a lot of that here. .
We know what it means to be a mother.
I feel your pain for your son.
Your brother did this to you,
but it's not your fault, the problem is our whole society.
You can get changed here.
Here, take this off.
Put this on.
Put on the jacket.
All of us here, at the beginning, we all had our troubles.
Everyone tried to push us into leaving the police.
Everyone tried in so many ways to get us to leave.
They used my family.
My father even tried using my mother
as a way of getting me to leave the police.
He tried to use my younger sisters
to force me to leave the police.
But they couldn't, I refused.
If you own your decision and your goal,
no one can stop or change you.
After some months, Hala and Sosan got a pay rise
and were now able to afford their own flat.
This was so important for Hala, because she needed a place
that she could bring her other sisters to.
Hi, there! Go on. .
Get inside!
Look at this mess.
Nice. .
But you'll see my body.
Take it off.
Should I?
Paradise, paradise, my homeland is a paradise.
Oh, my beloved homeland,
even your hell is a paradise. .
Look at that. .
I stood in my place, and Ali's mother was next to me.
I'm telling you here to film us.
Please come, come here.
She was filming it? - Yes, here.
I'm filming. Bissan, stay out!
Imagine if they saw this, what would they do?
She's just standing on her feet.
How are they going to take her?
In the coming months, Hala was given more and more responsibility in the police.
And I was waiting for the moment to finally meet her sisters.
Stand to attention!
Stand at ease!
When I say: "right" or "left",
there's no need for you to put your weapon down.
When I say "Put your weapon down," it means you're holding it.
Her mother and sister are here. Do you want to film them?
Now? - Yes.
Right now? - Yes.
Where are they? - In the other room.
In the other room? - Yes, I found them sitting by the door.
Everyone's welcome.
When I came back, I found them sitting by the door.
Look at yourself. .
Do you see yourself?
Do you like it?
They want to make a tent.
Gharam and her want to make a tent? Maram and her?
Let me do your hair, sit here.
Is anyone bothering you?
Does she?
And Maram?
Just a mobile phone? No shoes, trainers, trousers?
Here are some noodles for you. - Oh, thank you, dear.
Want some noodles?
After I turned off the camera, Hala's mother tried to convince her
to give up her job as a police officer and return home.
They're pressuring me to leave the police. They're digging for a reason.
Probably it's my father.
It doesn't matter what they do, I won't leave the Party.
Even if I had to face
not only the Euphrates Shield forces but the whole of Turkey.
Let them be.
Anything's possible.
There are so many girls who joined the Party.
But how I understand your case is different.
The other girls who joined us have families too,
and they also pressure them to leave us and go home.
But your father. . Let's be honest: Is he a spy?
A spy for the Euphrates Shield forces?
You're asking if my father is a spy? Or not a spy?
You mean a spy?
Not for the Euphrates Shield, maybe for ISIS. - For ISIS?
He just wants you out, at any price.
He wants that. He wants. .
Even by discrediting you. - He isn't strict with Sosan.
He wants to discredit you.
There could be another reason behind this. I'm not surprised.
I'm not saying that, but people talk about everything.
Even some of our girls go behind my back
and use my name at the hospital.
But even though I have my doubts about your father, let's bring him here. - OK.
But didn't Sosan bring him before? - Forget about Sosan, we'll bring him.
"And we congratulate all the women in the world. " - Exactly: "all the women in the world"
Like this, it's good. - You have to correct it: everything in the plural.
What should I do? My hair?
What? No. . - Give me a lighter.
Let your hair down
so you look like a girl.
Then what am I now?
Let them do it for you.
I want a small one.
Give her the one you've got and take hers. - Like this?
We have not been crushed by the weapons of any age.
Let no one say the Kurds are dead, we are alive.
We live and never shall we lower our flag.
We are descendants of the red banner. .
On behalf of myself and the Women's Internal Security Forces in Minbij,
women are now playing a huge role in society
and proving themselves in all fields.
And that's why we're congratulating them on International Women's Day.
And we congratulate all the women in the Middle East and in the world.
I'm greeting all our martyrs who've sacrificed their lives, so we can all have a better life.
And I salute our leader Abdullah Öcalan,
who has given us the confidence to build strong personalities.
The Leader says: Let's make every day a day of celebration.
And I congratulate
all the female martyrs who have died to liberate the oppressed women in Minbij.
And today, I want to deliver our message to all women in the world.
Just as our female martyrs have sacrificed their lives to liberate the women of Minbij,
we promise to continue on their path of sacrifice,
until all the women of the world are liberated.
If the men have been oppressed once in Minbij,
the women have been oppressed many times more.
Because we were oppressed,
we will not allow any woman to go through the same thing.
Let's promise to sacrifice ourselves
until all women have been liberated. Thank you.
Thanks to Comrade Halla. - Not "Halla", "Hala. . "
Sosan and I had an argument.
I moved to Zahra's house and Sosan moved back to my parents' house.
And ever since we've been here and she's been there, I just see her once a month.
We argued about her fiancé
I don't want my sister to get married now.
I don't like the guy, I don't get along with him.
He doesn't like me, the two of us don't get on.
But it's her life, not yours. - Right. I'm not telling her not to marry,
but she should wait a while. Marriage isn't a game you can stop playing any time you want.
And when I refused to go back to my parents, she moved back there.
She said: "Come back with me. " I said: "No, I won't.
I've made a decision to never go back.
Animals behave like animals. For example, that snake we ran away from.
Snakes have sex only once a year.
Not right away, but after a certain ritual.
They meet first, dance for each other and attract each other.
And then there's harmony! But they're snakes.
A man is neither a snake nor anything else. I don't know what he is.
You have to liberate yourself, start with yourself. Don't let all your thoughts be erotic!
For example now you're in the women's defence units your concern is to free others, maintain security.
Your concern is not: "I saw this boy, I love him, I want to be with him. "
Don't ever think about it, because this will lead you to the abyss!
Sexual desire leads mankind to the abyss!
Honour is the honour of your community. Try to preserve that
by forgetting your desires and lusts.
Hold it back! Ignore them once, twice, and they will disappear completely.
I asked Sosan to take me to her family's house,
from where she and Hala had escaped.
In mathematics: "A"
An "A" in English, an "A" in Arabic, an "A" in Kurdish. - Gharam, mathematics.
What?
What's this here?
Just a second.
Look at this here.
This is 19? - Yes, it's 19.
No, this is 20.
20, 20, 20.
Here nine, nine, nine.
Don't wake him up.
I said I'd let them go to school
so they could become teachers or doctors.
But this is where we've ended up: the police.
I didn't like them joining the police. I tell you, I didn't like it.
Now I say it, and ever, the military is. .
but this is the way things have turned out.
What a time. .
Where's the cat?
No, scram! Give it to her to take outside.
Tell Hala her father says he can take care of her with one bullet. - We've told her.
We've already told Hala.
I swear to God, one bullet. Honestly, I mean it.
She's not being fair herself.
If the results were good, I'd have no problem at all.
But her mentality and behaviour have to be good.
Right?
She's still my daughter.
But all this gossiping isn't good for me. I've told Hala so many times
that all this gossiping isn't good for me.
Hala has been shaming us for 18 months.
Thanks be to God, we have our own house, other families have nothing.
A father always wants the best for his daughter.
I want my children to be better than me, like any other father.
OK, let's go.
Take her to the other room so we can have lunch.
Oh God. .
Don't cry, Mum, don't.
Sosan took me to her childhood village,
which is located in a military zone outside Minbij.
She got a permission from the police to drive there
and pick up some pillows for her wedding.
These are our relatives, those who belong to ISIS.
This area is full of ISIS.
We've nothing to do with them.
How many of them? - Around 50 have died, from all these houses.
Where's your house? - Our house? Straight on.
This was ISIS here? - Yes, all of it.
There used to be four or five of them in each house. - No less than that.
Take the next turning here. - And the next turning after that.
We have relatives here, but we have nothing to do with them.
Are you sure you've been here before? - Definitely, don't be afraid.
Are there mines here? - Maybe, but they must all have exploded by now.
Exploded. .
That's why we aren't scared. Look at your grandfather's tree, the pomegranate and berries.
We thought it had all dried up.
She's filming me, I saw her.
I show her that I'm happy, but I'm not. In my heart I'm not.
I'll just have that other one. .
She didn't listen to me. She was hasty and fell in love.
And my parents want this, they like it.
Since we escaped from home, we've shamed the family.
You must marry a man, and with that you'll erase the shame.
For them and society, that's the way you wash your shame.
That's how they wash away their shame.
You've damaged your car. - I know.
No, no, don't film this!
We're leaving.
She's going to film this. - Hurry up, sisters, hurry.
Gharam, Biyan!
Biyan, come on, hurry up!
Sit here and look at the camera.
Film my sisters, Antonia.
Will somebody finally take a picture of us? Bissan, come on!
Sit down! Maram, sit!
Maram, sit next to me!
Sana, sit down!
Hey, Bissan, look here! - Bissan, Bissan!
Hey, Mohamed, come here! - Mohamed come to me!
After we joined the police force, nobody acknowledged us anymore.
Nobody visited my parents anymore.
But that's their problem.
I didn't want her to come home.
They didn't put on any music or a party for her, nothing.
What's wrong with her?
This is the family house they want us to go back to.
Take a good one, OK?
And then Hala disappeared.
Nobody knew where she was, and I was terribly worried.
I waited at the police station for several days, hoping for a message from her.
And then I got the news:
I couldn't believe it at first.
Hala's father wanted to marry off one of her other sisters.
When Hala heard this,
she attacked her parents' house with a Kalashnikov and a hand grenade
and tried to take her sisters away from home.
Eylem dismissed her from the police service and put her in prison for several days.
Punish me for my mistake. - I did.
We also need to talk about it.
Comrade, I don't understand your actions.
I was very upset by your actions.
Until. . - You supported me. - Until. .
I felt sure of that before I went there.
But what you did was wrong.
You've lost your respect. .
Alright, you should have taken me by the ear and thrown me in jail for what I did.
Again, no respect. You don't respect your comrades.
You didn't respect them.
Then why didn't you put me in jail right away?
I didn't see you! - How? I was there for an hour.
I looked for you in the evening, I didn't realise you were going to do something like that.
I didn't do anything. - Carrying grenades?
It's my business if I carry grenades or any other weapons in my own house.
Did I leave the house or attack a comrade?
You threatened your parents. - Yes, I was angry, just like you were.
Why did you do it? - I was angry, I'm a human being. You were angry, too.
I'm telling you, now, Hala, I'm saying. .
What you did was wrong.
OK, we all make mistakes.
Many girls do far worse things and you accept it.
Who? - All of them! - Who? - You know who, I don't want to say.
You know who I'm talking about: Asmaa! - What about her?
Why didn't you fire Asmaa or throw her in jail like you did me?
Hala, wait. You'll see what we'll do.
You've been here for a long time, for a year.
Yes, but my efforts and hard work count for nothing with you.
Your efforts? - Yes.
You forgot all that in a second. - You're defending yourself again
and raising your voice. - I'm not raising my voice.
I've always had a loud voice.
I was born this way.
Listen, the other day. .
The situation you created was really bad.
What you did was not OK, not at all.
You show no respect for us at all.
I got yelled at by your mother.
She came and said so many bad words to me.
If my sister ran away from home and was taken by some men, whose fault would that be?
Oh God! No, she's like you. She can take care of herself.
She's 12. I left home when I was 19.
She can take care of herself.
You're threatening us again. - I'm not threatening anyone, Comrade Eylem.
Thanks to God, Syria and democracy we can live moments like this.
We have to sing patriotic songs.
You revolutionaries of Minbij, lions of Heaven, lions of the Earth. .
Face your enemy and destroy him!
Answer the call!
There's a tent. - No one's here.
There's a tent. - It's beautiful, isn't it?
When I joined the police,
I had one promise, one wish, one dream.
As soon as I was strong enough and had established myself,
I would go back and take my sisters away from the family house.
It's true that they confiscated my weapon and grenade.
But I still have the power:
the power of my tongue and my hands.
I'll keep fighting until my sisters are with me, until I can save them
and give them an education and a nice life, that's all.
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