Hawar, nos enfants bannis

2014. Thousands of Yazidi women kidnapped by ISIS were reduced to sexual slavery. On being freed, Ana was forced to abandon her baby. All the children born as a result of these rapes were systematically rejected by the Yazidi community. Ana secretly crosses Kurdistan to see her daughter Marya again.

Directed by: Pascale Bourgaux (Belgium/Switzerland, 2022)
Genre: documentary
Parental guidance: TV-PG
Awards: Biarritz FIPADOC Prize for Women in the Media (France, 2024); selected for the Cévennes International Documentary Festival (2024), the Nyon Visions du Réel festival (Switzerland, 2023) and the Brussels BRIFF (Belgium, 2023).