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They belong to the armed wing of the PKK, the Kurdistan Workers' Party, which is also an active guerrilla movement. The mission of these female fighters? Defend Kurdish territory in Iraq and Syria, and defeat ISIS (the armed militants of the so-called Islamic State group), all while embodying a revolutionary ideal advocating female empowerment. As filmmaker Zaynê Akyol follows their highly regimented lives, seasoned fighters like Rojen and Sozdar openly share with us their most intimate thoughts and dreams. Even as fighting against ISIS intensifies in the Middle East, these women bravely continue their battle against barbarism. Offering a window into this largely unknown world, Gulîstan, Land of Roses exposes the hidden face of this highly mediatized war: the female, feminist face of a revolutionary group united by a common vision of freedom.

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On September 12 1980, the Turkish state staged a fascist military coup to oppress the Kurdish people's struggle for basic human rights and freedom. Their existence, identity, language and culture was denied and banned. Tens of thousands of Kurds and revolutionary people in Turkey were sent to jail.

In Diyarbakir, the biggest city in Kurdistan, in order to bury Kurds' dreams and longings inside Diyarbakir Prison No. 5, viscous tortures - as viscous as that of Auschwitz - were carried out. And against this oppression, a group of Kurdistan freedom fighters started an unprecedented resistance for basic human rights and freedom that every person in the world should possess.

And as an important part of this resistance, they went on indefinite hunger strike on July 14, 1982...