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Sabaya

Winner of the Directing Award at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival, this brave, riveting film takes us inside the most dangerous refugee camps in the Middle East, Al-Hol, in Syria. 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 there by ISIS as sabaya (sex slaves).

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Mahmud Resho
Self
Siham
self, Mahmud Resho's wife
Zahra
self, Mahmud Resho's mother

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Awards

  • 2021 - Grand Jury Prize - World Cinema - Documentary - nominated
  • 2021 - Directing Award - World Cinema - Documentary - winner
  • 2021 - Golden Firebird Award - Documentary - nominated
  • 2021 - F:ACT Award - - nominated

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