A unique interview with Tooba Gondal, the woman who groomed and lured scores of Western women to join ISIS. Using social media, she became a deadly matchmaker, recruiting a number of high-profile “jihadi brides” for ISIS militants in Syria: she allegedly helped organise the transporting of three British schoolgirls, including Shamima Begum, to Syria.
Vodka Lemon is a poetic comedy-drama set in a remote village in the Caucasus mountains. The story revolves around Hamo, an old man who has lost his wife and spends his days at her grave site. He meets a young woman named Nina and they develop an unexpected connection. The film explores themes of love, loss, survival, and the beauty of everyday life in the face of poverty and hardship.
Immediately prior to the Russian Revolution, a young shepherd Seydo and his girlfriend Zare struggle for their right to a happy love in a Yazidi Kurdish village in Russian Armenia.
"We, the Yazidis, became doves. Doves without wings", says Hedil. Stranded with her family in a Yazidi refugee camp in Eastern Turkey, she reminisces about her former life in Northern Iraq and recounts the horrors of her escape. The film follows two families' attempts at normality in an otherwise miserable place. (ML)
Filmmaker Binevsa Bêrîvan travels to Armenia to capture the daily life, customs, and history of the country's Yazidi Kurdish community.
12-year-old Dyab is a Kurdish Yazidi boy living at Arbat refugee camp, after the horrendous attacks by the Islamic States on their villages at Shingal Mountains (Sinjar). However, Dyab’s dream is, to become a filmmaker and actor and tell the stories and sufferings of his people to the outside world.
The film is about the establishment of a kolkhoz (collective farm) in a Kurdish village in Soviet Armenia.
The Ezidîs (Yazidis) in Kurdistan have been the victims of massacres numerous times. This documentary follows their bards, the dengbêj, and examines how their songs tell stories of love and genocide.
Shingal, Where Are You? is a powerful documentary that focuses on the Yazidi genocide in Iraq and the subsequent fight for justice for the victims. The film sheds light on the social and human rights issues faced by the Yazidi religious minority and raises awareness about their plight.
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