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THE RETURN

By Zahavi SANJAVI

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Documentary - Completed 2016

In this portrait of perseverance in the midst of insurmountable grief, a nurse named Shilan returns to a refugee camp for Yezidis in Iraqi Kurdistan.

Festivals
& Awards

IDFA 2016

Mid-length Competition

Goteborg IFF 2017

Thessaloniki IFF 2017

- Year of production
- 2016
- Genres
- Documentary
- Countries
- SWEDEN
- Languages
- ARABIC, KURDISH, SWEDISH
- Budget
- 0.3 - 0.6 M$
- Duration
- 54 mn
- Director(s)
- Zahavi SANJAVI
- Producer(s)
- Zahavi SANJAVI (AVB Production AB)
- Synopsis
- A Yazidi refugee camp in Iraqi Kurdistan is a home for more than 20 000 refugees, many of whom are victims of terrorist attacks by ISIS. Shilan is a young Kurdish nurse who volunteered to take care of them. Every tent in the camp has a story, and Shilan takes the responsibility to hear the refugees out, empathising with the pain they are suffering. One day Shilan hears about a tent where a woman is refusing to eat her food and have any sort of contact with the outside. She decides to take action.

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