“City of Ghosts,” a documentary capturing the rebels who risk their lives for the anti-ISIS movement R.B.S.S. – Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently – had a screening last week in New York, followed by a panel with director Matthew Heineman, producer Alex Gibney, and one of the subjects of the film known by his first name, Aziz.
Relevant and uncompromising as any well-made documentary concerning ISIS, City of Ghosts goes for the jugular, inundating viewers with often uncensored executions and scenes of devastation that at times overshadow the film’s subjects, a group of activists risking their lives to report human rights abuses within the ISIS occupied Syrian city of Raqqa.