Sinjar, Northern Iraq, 2014: Hanifa, a young Yezidi woman, miraculously survives the ISIS attack on the Yezidi religious and ethnic minority in the Sinjar region of northern Iraq. Hanifa escapes abduction by ISIS but her five younger sisters are all trucked off and enslaved. Based on an exclusive access to one of the most dangerous and underreported places on earth, Oscar and Emmy nominated filmmaker Hanna Polak tracks Hanifa’s mission to find her sisters and bring them home to keep the promise given to her dying father.
Film crew
Director:
Hanna Polak
Screenwriter:
Hanna Polak
Cinematographer:
Hanna Polak, Mariusz Margas, Mykhailo Puziurin
Producer:
Hanna Polak (Hanna Polak Films/Poland), Simone Baumann (Saxonia Entertainment/Germany)
Composer:
Łukasz Pieprzyk
Sound operator:
Bartez Putkiewicz
Information
Theme:
Human rights, In other languages
Film studio:
HBO MAX, Hanna Polak Films, Saxonia Entertainment, ZDF, Arte, Česká Telewize
Language:
Kurmanji, English
Subtitles:
English
Artdocfest 2023
Baltic Focus
International festivals
FIFDH Geneva (Prix Gilda Vieira de Mello)
International festivals
Millenium Docs Against Gravity (Special Mention in the the Best Polish Film Award Competition & Special Mention in the Lower Silesia Grand Prix Competition)