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تلفزيون بي بي سي عربي

من بي بي سي عربي

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الرئيسية - BBC News عربي

The film follows Tiba’s transformation as she becomes aware of her own wishes and demands.

It’s 1 October 2022. Thousands of young people gather at Tahrir Square in the middle of Baghdad. They’re there to celebrate the three-year anniversary of the largest youth demonstrations in the history of Iraq. One of the demonstrators in 2019 was Tiba, then 19 years old. Without telling her mother where she was going, she went to Tahrir Square and was amazed by the large number of women and youth in the demonstrations.  
 
In this society that prevents the mixing of the sexes, men and women were standing side by side to fight for freedom and democratic change. This generation had had enough of militias, corrupt politicians, and foreign interference. They wanted Iraq to belong to them.  
And Tiba wanted to join her friends Yousif and Khader, along with thousands of other youngsters on the square, to demonstrate.  
 
The three friends started a medical team, spending days and nights together in their tent on Tahrir Square. They laugh, cry, are terrified and face danger, feeling the desire of youth for change. Tiba is very active and becomes one of the leaders of the 2019 demonstrations, but her group suffers a tremendous loss when Yousif is fatally shot by one of the militias.  
 
Tiba chooses to continue her fight for freedom, for a new Iraq and a better future, even though she’s traumatised and depressed because many people are leaving the demonstrations. At the same time, she’s trying to concentrate on her studies at home. 

The film follows Tiba’s transformation as she becomes aware of her own wishes and demands. She wants to study and have an independent job, and to fight for democracy and for a new generation being together in a different way. Will she manage this?

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