Maryam Ebrahimi's documentary The Phantom Pain of Rojava follows survivors living in a shared home for injured veterans of the war against Islamic State in Rojava, the Kurdish-led autonomous region of northern Syria. The Guardian review describes it as a tender and gentle film that highlights the extraordinary courage and solidarity of Kurdish women, many of whom fought on the front lines and are now grappling with the physical and psychological aftermath of war.

The film centres on figures such as Fadakhar, a male resident who lost both legs and experiences phantom pain, and focuses especially on female veterans, including house commander Sorkhin, an Iranian Kurd celebrated for rescuing enslaved Yazidi women, and Zarin, a sniper left largely unable to speak after being shot in the head. It opens with the funeral of a female commander, where mourners dig her grave by hand in a local tradition of solidarity, and touches on the history of Kurdish women joining the fight against IS from 2011 onwards, though the reviewer notes the film could have offered more background on that history. The reviewer calls it "incredibly moving".