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Sabaya
On the first day of Digital MIPTV, London-headquartered sales agent Dogwoof confirmed a string of sales for
Seeds of Deceit and
Sabaya, both of which premiered at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival.
Seeds of Deceit (pictured) sold to RTL (Germany), VRT (Belgium), VGTV (Norway), SVT (Sweden), DR (Denmark), Mediawan (France), Channel 8 (Israel), Yesdocu (Israel), Sky (New Zealand) and Movistar (Spain).
Sabaya, meanwhile, sold to Studio Hamburg (Germany), SND (France), Dalton (Benelux), FrontRow (MENA), Sky (New Zealand) and Vertigo (Hungary).
The Dutch three-part series
Seeds of Deceit, directed by Miriam Guttman, is an investigation into how a respected fertility doctor, Dr. Karrbaat, clandestinely inseminated over 65 of his patients with his own semen.
film profile]’s perspective on this is to illuminate just one example of this perennial state of war, here meaning the fate of the thousands of women captured and forced into sex slavery by the self-proclaimed caliphate. These women are known as the
sabaya, a term not well known in public discourse about ISIS, aka Daesh. A short, sharp shock more than an exhaustive study, this was a notable success at the just-concluded Sundance Film Festival for Swedish director
Hogir Hirori, who walked away with the Directing Award in the World Cinema Documentary Competition (see the news).
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Impressively exciting and strikingly novel.
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The rescues of Yazidi girls and women forced into sex slavery by ISIS supporters are captured in Hogir Hirori s hyper-immersive documentary.
The last major stronghold of the Islamic State also known as ISIS, ISIL and Daesh fell in March 2019, when the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces liberated the town of Baghouz, on the border between Syria and Iraq. At the peak of its power, ISIS controlled a swath of land the size of Britain between those two Middle Eastern countries, with some 8 million people under the rule of its so-called caliphate. Among the militant group’s highest-profile victims were the Yazidi, a religious minority in northern Iraq that was targeted by ISIS for genocide and the mass kidnapping, rape and forced marriage of its young girls.
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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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.