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With car chases and shootouts, it may feel like a Hollywood action flick, but, as the director, Hogir Hirori, explains, the film is really about the exploited women and girls there
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.