"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.