In December 2014 ISIS militants managed to completely surround the town of Sinjar in Iraq. The Yedezi Kurdish residents of the mountain town, which lies about 50km from the Syrian border, are trapped. But they are not beaten. Xavier Muntz was dropped by helicopter into Sinjar and spent three weeks among the inhabitants as they fought for their lives and their homeland. The resistance force here is made up fighters from many countries and religious groups; all united amongst their common enemy. Fighting alongside each other are Kurds from Syria and Turkey, Christians and Muslims and even an American who contacted them through Facebook. Unusually for such a conservative part of the world there are also women who have enlisted and who fight as fiercely as any of their male colleagues. We see how life continues surrounded by fierce daily battles. After many massacres of their people, those left here are afraid but defiant against extremists who want to destroy them and their way of life forever. Extraordinary and exclusive footage from inside the war against ISIS.

Xavier Muntz studied at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques of Paris, the Cardiff School of Journalism and the Ecole Superieure de Journalisme of Paris. He started his carrier as a print press journalist and worked for various papers and magazines such as l'Express, the Washington Post, VSD, the Herald Tribune, le Vrai Papier Journal, Nova Magazine and Technikart… First involved in investigative journalism, he covered later stories about violence in South America and the Near East. After a first experience as a researcher in ABC News Paris's office, he worked for television in 2000, for Reservoir Prod before making news stories for Capa News agency and directed several reports. In 2004, He joined Jean François Bizot and Andrew Orr at Nova Production where he stayed six years as an author/director. Since 2007, he is editor at the publishing house les Editions du Moment in charge of investigative books. In 2014, he choose to document the Kurdish resistance against the Islamic State. After entering clandestinely in Syria, he went to the besieged city of Kobané on the 4th of october 2014, crossing ISIS ligns on a motorbike. On the 11th of december 2014, a supply helicopter dropped him on mount Sinjar which was at the time entirely surrounded by ISIS.