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ANGELS OF SINJAR

By Hanna POLAK

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Female director - Completed 2022

Hanifa is a young Yezidi woman, who tries to find her sisters, who were abducted by ISIS, and bring them home – as she had promised her dying father she would.

- Year of production
- 2022
- Genres
- Female director, Documentary
- Countries
- POLAND, GERMANY
- Duration
- 109 mn
- Director(s)
- Hanna POLAK
- Producer(s)
- Hanna POLAK (Hanna Polak Films), Simone BAUMANN (Saxonia Entertainment)
- 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.