Sabaya, trailer

Armed with just a mobile phone and a gun, Mahmud, Ziyad and other volunteers from the Yazidi Home Center risk their lives trying to save Yazidi women and girls being held by ISIS members as sabaya (sex slaves) in the most dangerous refugee camp in the Middle East, AlHol in Syria. Often accompanied by burkaclad female infiltrators and working mostly at night, they must act quickly to avoid potential violence. In this visceral, often edgeofyourseat film, we experience both the tense situation in the camp and the comfort of daily life at home, where Mahmuds wife, Siham, and his mother, Zahra, lovingly help the traumatized girls shed off the black garments of an ideology that tolerates nothing but itself. directed by Hogir Hirori, 2021