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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Running time: Running time: 91 MIN.
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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.
2021 Sundance Film Festival: Day 3 highlights By David Morgan
Updated on: January 30, 2021 / 11:50 PM / CBS News
Highlights for Day 3:
Though Jamila Wignot s rapturous profile of dancer and choreographer Alvin Ailey (1931-1989) spends less time on details of his life than may be wished for, it more than makes up for it on details of Ailey s work, including archival footage of Ailey as a dancer and choreographer; stunning performances of such pieces as his quintessential Revelations ; and energetic rehearsals of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, led by mentees who are pursuing Ailey s vision years after his death.
It also features interviews with numerous dancers and collaborators who were part of the revolutionary dance company, who speak to Ailey s gifts as a leader, and as an artist who found a way to blend the aesthetics of classical and modern dance with the sensibility of a young Black boy from Depression-era Texas who dreamed of becoming