The war on terror in the viewfinder - the gripping report of a war photographer. In October 2016, the magazine Der Spiegel commissioned Ali Arkady to write a report on the start of the offensive against the Islamic State in Mosul. The photojournalist Ali makes contact with soldiers he had met in Fallujah a few months earlier. He joins them at the Qayyarah military base 90 km south of Mosul in Iraq. Ali is Kurdish and is protected by the men he accompanies and wins their trust. After his reportage for Der Spiegel, he stayed with the soldiers and pretended to be preparing a film about the ERD (Emergency Response Division), an emergency unit of the Iraqi Ministry of the Interior. For two months, he shares the everyday life of the soldiers, listening to their conversations. And he discovers the worst: attacks on civilians, rape, torture... Ali is at the end of his nerves and at the end of hell. Ali Arkady's photos and films are published all over the world. For this haunting reportage, he was awarded the Bayeux Calvados-Normandie Prize for War Correspondents in 2017. Notes: