Autoplay Next video from Max length

City of Ghosts director on his Raqqa documentary: “Cutting the violence would be an injustice”

972 views · Published 26 July 2017 · 17:23 · Indexed 20 September 2026

Channel: BFI · 2017 · Film & Animation

Matthew Heineman, the director of a documentary about the anti-ISIS journalist group Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently, talks about his decision to show ISIS propaganda videos in the film and how he struggled with finding a way to accurately depict the violence experienced by citizens under the terror group's rule.

Subscribe: http://bit.ly/subscribetotheBFI.

Watch more on the BFI Player: http://player.bfi.org.uk/
Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/BFI
Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BritishFilmInstitute
Follow us on Google+: https://plus.google.com/+britishfilminstitute/

City of Ghosts director on his Raqqa documentary: “Cutting the violence would be an injustice”

More from this channel