Synopsis
Director:
Hogir Hirori
91 min, Sweden, 2021
Set in northeastern Syria, this gripping docu-thriller chronicles the adventures of Mahmud and his intrepid team of human rights activists as they rescue women and girls being held by members of ISIS inside a vast Kurdish-run prison camp. Complete with car chases and arson attacks, the stakes couldn’t be higher. While ISIS sympathizers violently try to thwart their efforts, Mahmud sends a group of burka-clad women clandestinely into the dangerous camp to find those still stuck inside. Winner of a Directing Award in this year’s Sundance’s World Documentary Competition, Kurdish filmmaker Hogir Hirori’s masterful and immersive documentary is “startling, intense” (Variety), “impressively exciting and strikingly novel” (The Hollywood Reporter), and "a harrowing portrait of courage under fire that will shake audiences into awareness.” (RogerEbert.com).