SINGAPORE - In the war drama Mosul, French-Tunisian actor Adam Bessa is Kawa, a young cop recruited into a team of veteran fighters.
They operate in Mosul, Iraq's second most populous city, parts of which were seized by Islamic State (IS) fighters in 2014. While the Iraqi army fled, Kawa's new comrades stay behind, engaging IS in gruelling street-by-street, room-by-room gunfights.
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