Beyond The Line

Without any doubt my maddest project so far. I involved in a single series on one side some Peshmerga soldiers, an institution with great reputation in Kurdistan, and on the other a person belonging to the LGBTQ world, a world that struggles to assert their rights. The identities here are shown as contrasts: femininity in the military world, young girls who decide to serve their country, in a society where women rarely participate actively in public life. Femininity finds its counterpart in a boy who feels like a woman and who poses for us with them in a barracks. “Beyond the line” means: beyond the front line, for a soldier who faces death (Peshmerga means “facing death”); the dividing line between feminine and masculine, for a girl who decides to be a soldier; but also for a boy who is born as a man but feels a woman; the line that finally separates what is approved by what is not.The key moment was winning the trust of both parts, in order to have a shooting taking place in full respect and in complete safety.