Angels of Sinjar

Yazidis - 21st Century Genocide

a film by Hanna Polak

Angels of Sinjar

Germany, Poland | 2022 | 109:00 min

Formal Categories

Current Affairs Gender Human Interest Society Conflicts War / Peace Human Rights Migration Religion

Content Categories

Documentary

109min or 52min original Kurmanji, English version with German or English subtitles available

Synopsis

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 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 – as she had promised her dying father she would.

Festivals/Awards

2019 Česká televize Co-production Award & HBO Europe Award for production

2022 World Premiere
Prix Gilda Vieira de Mello – FIFDH – 20 international Film Festivls and Forum on Human Rights, Geneve
One World Prague
29 Hot Docs Toronto– North American Premiere
Docs Against Gravity
shortlisted European Film Award 'European Documentary'

Cast and Crew

Director Hanna Polak
Producer Hanna Polak (Hanna Polak Film Poland )
Director of Photography Hanna Polak, Mariusz Margas, Mykhailo Puziurin
Editor Marcin Kot Bastkowski, Hanna Polak
Sound Bartez Putkiewicz
Score Lukasz Pieprzyk

Original Languages

Kurdish

English

World Sales Company

Deckert Distribution GmbH
Gottschedstr. 18, 04109 Leipzig

Phone: +49 341 2156638

info@deckert-distribution.com
http://www.deckert-distribution.com

Production Company

SAXONIA ENTERTAINMENT GmbH office Leipzig
Altenburger Str. 9, 04275 Leipzig

Phone: +49 341 35004100

Fax: +49 341 35004110

info@saxonia-entertainment.de
https://www.saxonia-entertainment.de

Links / Reference

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