'' Picturing War '' follows freelance journalist and war photographer Benjamin Hiller , who is traveling to conflict zones around the world . The first station is Iraqi Kurdistan , where the filmmakers visit the front line between Peshmerga and ISIL . Hiller portrays the situation of the Christian refugees . In Rwanda , he visits the infamous Murambi Genocide Memorial , where 20 years earlier tens of thousands of people were murdered . Back in the Middle East , Hiller crosses the border into Syria to report about Yazidi refugees and the female fighters of the YPJ who rescued them . In Europe , the film crew follows the images that Hiller took during the travels into the newsroom of taz in Berlin , the working place of the editor-in-chief of Corbis in Marseille , and the World Press Photo Award in Amsterdam
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