15/03/2022 - Hanna Polak's documentary about the consequences of the 2014 genocide against the Yazidis tells the story through the experience of a woman trying to get her sisters back from ISIS captivity
15/03/2022 - Hanna Polak's documentary about the consequences of the 2014 genocide against the Yazidis tells the story through the experience of a woman trying to get her sisters back from ISIS captivity
While thousands of enslaved Yazidi women and girls are still missing, director Hogir Hirori traveled to Syria in order to document both victims and the women fighting to free them. 'Everybody thought I was crazy,' he tells Haaretz
ISIS justified enslaving Yazidi women and girls based on the claim they are daughters of an infidel, devil-worshiping religion. While thousands are still missing, Syrian-Swedish director Hogir Hirori traveled to Syria and Iraq in order to document both the victims and the women trying to free them
Maybe this pandemic has encouraged more people to watch documentaries at home. What’s certain is that not enough of them have made it to the big screen. Even the Grand Berry Theater and the Modern Art Museum, reliable places to watch docs, left too many of the films here to streaming services. This New Year, let’s