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Shalmashi comes from a family with Iranian Kurdish heritage, she was born in Paris and raised in the Netherlands.
After graduation from the national film school she wrote and directed several awarded shorts and tv films, and the interactive bigvillagestory.
com, about the Iranian Kurdish diaspora and their shared revolutionary past.
Shalmashi works as a screenwriter, director, film fund advisor, script consultant, and tutor and runs Avanti, a center for debate and inclusion.
This interactive documentary recreates a time and place that only exists in the memories of Iranian Kurds who are forced to live in diaspora around the world. Many people died during the events recounted here and in the years that followed.
Dutch-Kurdish Ceylan is living the perfect life; and has a nice boyfriend, Bastiaan. However, the war in her homeland is fighting for her attention. She no longer can handle watching the misery on TV without taking action. Therefore she decides to become 'Peshmerga' and say goodbye to her secure life with Bastiaan, maybe forever.