Sabaya Review: Devastating Doc on the Frontline Fight to Rescue Women and Girls From ISIS Slavery Sabaya Review: Devastating Doc on the Frontline Fight to Rescue Women and Girls From ISIS Slavery
A small band of volunteers attempt to rescue female ISIS slaves from a Syrian border camp in Hogir Hirori s gripping, harrowing, superb doc.
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Running time: Running time: 91 MIN.
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Mahmud is on his cellphone and he can’t get through. It’s the first image in Hogir Hirori’s startling “Sabaya,” an intense, deeply embedded documentary following the painstaking and perilous rescue of Yazidi women (a Kurdish religious minority), from enslavement by ISIS, aka Daesh. It will not be the last time a call is dropped, a signal lost or a ringback tone times out it becomes a recurring motif, a matter-of-fact reminder of all the people who can’t be reached.