Overview
- A first teaser for No Paradise if You Are Killed by a Woman has been released and shows explosions, destruction and tense scenes as its protagonist returns to Mosul.
- The film follows Vyan, a Kurdish‑Norwegian sniper driven by vengeance and the hope of finding her younger sister who was taken during ISIS rule.
- Halkawt Mustafa wrote, directed and produces the feature through his Hene Films banner, and rising Kurdish actor Avan Jamal stars with Thorbjørn Harr in a supporting role.
- Rome‑based sales company True Colours has boarded the project and the film is scheduled to premiere out of competition at the Venice International Film Festival next month.
- Mustafa says the story is rooted in meetings with women who fought ISIS and draws inspiration from Nobel laureate Nadia Murad and the 2014 attacks that produced the Yazidi genocide, which shapes the film’s ethical and historical context.