4/5
This Sky Documentaries film heard from the women who had run away to join Isil, but were now trapped inside the Roj detention camp
15 June 2021 • 10:00pm
Shamima Begum says she now regrets her decision to join Isil and wants to come home
Credit: Sky UK
According to its director,
The Return: Life After Isis (Sky Documentaries) was a film “that challenges the viewer to listen without judging”. Impossible, I’m afraid.
Director Alba Sotorra Clua spent two years filming women in the Roj detention camp in north-east Syria. We are all familiar with the story of the wretched Shamima Begum, the east London schoolgirl who ran away at 15 to join the so-called Islamic State. She was one of the subjects here, alongside others from Canada, the Netherlands, the US and Germany. All were in limbo, their governments having washed their hands of them.