Connecting Conversations

In the preparations to the first Connecting Conversations event, we have selected three powerful movie recommendations for you + a bonus!

The 3 movies are:
- Osama directed by Siddiq Barmak in 2003
- Theeb directed by Naji Abu Nowar in 2014
- Homeland: Iraq Year Zero directed by Abbas Fahdel in 2015

In this review, you will get to know what makes these movies unique and worthwhile to see. These movies will definitely broaden your horizon while at home during this corona pandemic ;)

Furthermore, concerning the Yazidi community in Iraq about whom we'll talk about during the event of Connecting Conversations, we have for you the 4th film recommendation: “SHINGAL: Where are you?” directed by Angellos Rallis and Hans Ulrich Gössl in 2016.

Under-titled “Shingal: feminicide in the age of ISIS”, this powerful documentary enters at the heart of the Havind family and its struggle to secure the return of their daughter Viyan from an ISIS slave camp.

In 2014, the Yezidi city of Shingal in northern Iraq was conquered by ISIS, kidnapping 3,000 women and girls who became sex-slave. In a deserted coal mine on the Turkish border, thousands of Yezidi refugees wait for a safe return.

This exceptional documentary is about the dispossession of a religious minority’s core identity, politically oppressed and persecuted for centuries in Iraq.

Angellos Rallis: “In Yezidi culture, there is no richer spiritual element than a woman, who is a symbol of birth and rebirth. […] The search for the kidnapped Yezidi women is indeed the story of all Yezidis searching for their own identity to be reborn beyond the ruins of Shingal”.

“SHINGAL: Where are you?” available at:
https://www.tvo.org/video/documentaries/shingal (works with a VPN)!

More info on the IDFA website: https://www.idfa.nl/en/film/36b0c258-bd73-4eb8-907f-af40f1fca7ba/shingal-where-are-you

Hereby the ZOOM link for tonight: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88166269384