Overview
With just a mobile phone and a gun, Mahmud, Ziyad and their group risk their lives trying to save Yazidi women and girls being held by ISIS as Sabaya (abducted sex slaves) in the most dangerous camp in the Middle East, Al-Hol in Syria.
Fun facts
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Awards
Won the Sundance World Cinema Directing Award for Documentary (2021) and the Guldbagge Award for Best Documentary Feature
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Nominations
Nominated for the Guldbagge Award for Best Screenplay
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Setting
Set in Al-Hawl refugee camp
Details
- Director
- Writer
- Hogir HiroriWriter
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- August 20, 2021
- Original language
- Kurdish
- Countries
- Sweden
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In the United States
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