Angels of Sinjar

by Hanna Polak
  • 2022 SAXONIA ENTERTAINMENT GmbH
  • 2020 SAXONIA ENTERTAINMENT GmbH
  • 2020 SAXONIA ENTERTAINMENT GmbH
  • 2022 SAXONIA ENTERTAINMENT GmbH
  • 2022 SAXONIA ENTERTAINMENT GmbH
  • 2020 SAXONIA ENTERTAINMENT GmbH
  • 2020 SAXONIA ENTERTAINMENT GmbH
  • 2020 SAXONIA ENTERTAINMENT GmbH
  • 2022 SAXONIA ENTERTAINMENT GmbH
  • 2022 SAXONIA ENTERTAINMENT GmbH
  • 2022 SAXONIA ENTERTAINMENT GmbH
  • 2020 SAXONIA ENTERTAINMENT GmbH

    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

    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'
    2023
    IDFF Artdocfest

    Cast and Crew

    Director

    Hanna Polak

    Producer

    Hanna Polak (Hanna Polak Film Poland )

    Score

    Lukasz Pieprzyk

    Sound

    Bartez Putkiewicz

    Editor

    Marcin Kot Bastkowski, Hanna Polak

    DoP

    Hanna Polak, Mariusz Margas, Mykhailo Puziurin