Sope Dirisu Played in this 2016 film about a young rifleman tasked with restoring water to an Iraq Village?
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Sope Dirisu Sope Dirisu is an English actor. He made his film debut in 2016 with "Sand Castle", "Criminal", and "".
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Sand Castle (film) Sand Castle is an American war drama film directed by Fernando Coimbra and written by Chris Roessner. The film stars Nicholas Hoult, Henry Cavill, Logan Marshall-Green, Tommy Flanagan, Glen Powell, Beau Knapp, and Neil Brown Jr. The film centers on Matt Ocre, a young rifleman in the United States Army, who is tasked with restoring water to a village in Iraq. It is based on the true events and the experience of the film's writer Roessner during the Iraq War. It was released on 21 April 2017 on Netflix.
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Huriyah al Jadidah Huriyah al Jadidah is a village in Iraq. It is located west of River Tigris and north of Al-Shirqat. By 2016, it was under control of ISIL.
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Harvest: 3,000 Years Mirt Sost Shi Amit ("Harvest: 3,000 Years") is a 1976 Ethiopian film directed by Haile Gerima.
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Syrian Democratic Forces The Syrian Democratic Forces (, Kurdish: "Hêzên Sûriya Demokratîk"‎ , Syriac: ܚܝ̈ܠܘܬܐ ܕܣܘܪܝܐ ܕܝܡܩܪܛܝܬܐ‎ , "Ḥaylawotho d'Suriya Demoqraṭoyto " ), commonly abbreviated as SDF or QSD, are a multi-ethnic and multi-religious alliance of predominantly Kurdish but also Arab and Assyrian/Syriac militias, as well as some smaller Turkmen, Armenian, Circassian and Chechen groups/participation in the Syrian Civil War. The SDF is mostly composed of, and militarily led by, the People's Protection Units (YPG), a mostly Kurdish militia. According to the Pentagon, Kurds made up 40% of the SDF and Arabs 60% in March 2017, although other sources estimate the Arab components of the SDF to be at a significantly lower number. Founded in October 2015, the SDF states its mission as fighting to create a secular, democratic and federal Syria, along the lines of the Rojava Revolution in northern Syria. The updated December 2016 constitution of the Democratic Federation of Northern Syria names the SDF as its official defence force.
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My Father's Rifle My Father's Rifle: A Childhood in Kurdistan is a novella by Kurdish screenplay writer, writer, and film director Hiner Saleem (2004, ISBN  ). The novella is a fictionalized account of Saleem's childhood in Kurdistan.
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The Water Diviner The Water Diviner is a 2014 American-Australian historical fictional war drama film directed by and starring Russell Crowe in his directorial debut. The screenplay was written by Andrew Anastasios and Andrew Knight. The film is loosely based on the book of the same name, written by Andrew Anastasios and Dr Meaghan Wilson-Anastasios.
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Camp de Thiaroye Camp de Thiaroye (also known as "The Camp at Thiaroye") is a 1988 Senegalese war-drama film written and directed by Ousmane Sembene and Thierno Faty Sow.
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Siege of Sur (2016) The 2016 siege of Sur, also known as the Sur curfew took place as part of the Kurdish-Turkish conflict in Sur district of Diyarbakir in Turkey, lasting for more than 3 months and destroying much of the neighbourhood. Heavy artillery and machine gun fire was utilized in the city, in clashes between Turkish army and police vs the Kurdish militants. At least 25 people had been killed in Sur by early March 2016, with rights groups reporting more than 200 killed by the end of the siege on March 10. The HDP party claimed that most of the casualties were civilians.
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Maskanah Maskanah (Arabic: مسكنة‎ ‎ ) also spelled, Meskene is a town in northern Syria, administratively part of the Manbij District of the Aleppo Governorate. The town is located 100 km southeast of Aleppo on the Lake Assad part of the Euphrates. Nearby localities include Dayr Hafir, Humaymah Kabirah and Tell Ayoub to the northwest and al-Thawrah to the southeast. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Maskanah had a population of 15,477 in the 2004 census. The Syrian government took control of Maskanah on 3 June 2017.
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Man Down (film) Man Down is a 2015 American war thriller drama film directed by Dito Montiel and written by Adam G. Simon. The film stars Shia LaBeouf, Jai Courtney, Gary Oldman, Kate Mara and Clifton Collins Jr. The film follows a Marine that returns from Afghanistan to find his hometown devastated and his wife and son are missing.
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2017 Euphrates Crossing offensive 2017 Euphrates Crossing offensive is a military offensive by the Syrian Arab Army against members of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in the Deir ez-Zor Governorate, following the breaking of the three-year siege of the city of Deir ez-Zor. The Euphrates Crossing, conducted by government troops, was done with the aim of denying US-backed forces and the US itself leverage over the Syrian government.
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Cold Breath Cold Breath is a 2016 film by Abbas Raziji.
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Gulîstan, Land of Roses Gulîstan, Land of Roses (French title: Gulîstan, terre de roses) is a 2016 feature-length documentary film about women guerillas in a Kurdistan Workers' Party Free Women's Unit, in combat against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, directed by Kurdish Montreal filmmaker Zaynê Akyol. Shot in Iraqi Kurdistan, the film is co-produced Montreal’s Périphéria Productions, Germany's MitosFilm and the National Film Board of Canada.
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Western al-Bab offensive (September 2016) The western al-Bab offensive (September 2016) was a military operation launched by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant in the countryside of northwestern Aleppo Governorate, south of the towns of Mare' and Tel Rifaat.
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Gun Runners Gun Runners is a 2016 National Film Board of Canada documentary film directed by Anjali Nayar about two former Kenyan tribal warriors and cattle thieves in an amnesty program who traded in their guns to become marathon runners. The film's origins date back to 2006, when Nayar met Julius Arile and fellow former cattle rustler Robert Matanda at the Tegla Loroupe Peace Race, created to reduce tension among rival tribes in northern Kenya. Nayar initially did a short radio story on the two men, which was broadcast on CBC Radio, and then remained in contact. The film follows the men through over 10 years, through training and races, and documents how their lives diverge: Arile pursues a career in running as well as politics, acting as a Kenyan representative at the UN to speak out against the proliferation of illegal small arms, while Matanda becomes disenchanted. Matanda and his wife would die in a car accident in March 2016, leaving behind seven children, whom Arile, Nayar and others from his community have united to help care for.
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A Step into the Darkness A Step into the Darkness (Turkish: "Büyük Oyun" ) is a 2009 Turkish drama film, directed by Atil Inac, starring Suzan Genç as an Iraqi refugee who travels to Turkey in search of her missing brother after losing her entire family when soldiers raid their village. The film, which went on nationwide general release across Turkey on  17, 2010 (2010--) , has won awards at international film festivals in Ankara, Antalya and Tiburon.
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Starless Dreams Starless Dreams is a 2016 Iranian documentary directed by Mehrdad Oskouei.
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2016 Dabiq offensive The 2016 Dabiq offensive is a military offensive and part of the third phase of Operation Euphrates Shield launched by the Turkish Armed Forces and factions from the Free Syrian Army and allied groups, with the goal of capturing the town of Dabiq, north of Aleppo.
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Battle of Mosul (2016–17) The Battle of Mosul (2016–17) (Arabic: معركة الموصل‎ ‎ , "Ma‘rakat al-Mawṣil"; Central Kurdish: شەڕی مووسڵ‎ , "Şeriy Mûsil") was a major military campaign launched by the Iraqi Government forces with allied militias, the Kurdistan Regional Government, and international forces to retake the city of Mosul from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), which had seized the city in June 2014. During the military intervention against ISIL, Iraqi and Peshmerga forces had already made unsuccessful attempts to retake the city in 2015 and again in 2016, despite limited gains.
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Mesopotamian Marshes The Mesopotamian Marshes or Iraqi Marshes are a wetland area located in southern Iraq and partially in southwestern Iran and Kuwait. Historically the marshlands, mainly composed of the separate but adjacent Central, Hawizeh and Hammar Marshes, used to be the largest wetland ecosystem of Western Eurasia. It is a rare aquatic landscape in the desert, providing habitat for the Marsh Arabs and important populations of wildlife. Draining of portions of the marshes began in the 1950s and continued through the 1970s to reclaim land for agriculture and oil exploration. However, in the late 1980s and 1990s, during the presidency of Saddam Hussein, this work was expanded and accelerated to evict Shia Muslims from the marshes. Before 2003, the marshes were drained to 10% of their original size. After the fall of Hussein's regime in 2003, the marshes have partially recovered but drought along with upstream dam construction and operation in Turkey, Syria and Iran have hindered the process. Since 2016 the mesopotamian marshes are listed as an UNESCO Heritage Site.
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Baaghi (2016 film) Baaghi (English: "Rebel") is a 2016 Indian martial arts film directed by Sabbir Khan and produced by Sajid Nadiadwala under his banner of Nadiadwala Grandson Entertainment. It features Tiger Shroff and Shraddha Kapoor in lead roles, with Sudheer Babu and Sunil Grover in supporting roles. Journalists noted similarities between the film and the 2011 Indonesian film "" and the 2004 Telugu-language Indian film "Varsham".