HÊZA | STRENGTH

Duration: 54 mins
Type: Documentary
Year: 2022

Director & Producer:
Derya Deniz

Producer:
Derya Deniz

Country:
Kurdistan

Languages:
Kurdish (Kurmanji)

Logline:
This documentary is about a Kurdish Yazidi woman who had been enslaved during the attack of the Islamic State (ISIS) on Shengal (Sinjar) which started on 3 August 2014.

Synopsis:
It tells what she’d lived through in the hands of ISIS, how she managed to escape, and how she carried on with her life after her escape. Hêza, never in her wildest dream thought she would one day be commanding hundreds of men and women fighters into a battle against the world’s most dangerous jihadist terror organisation (ISIS) and defeat them. Hêza was just a young girl when she along with 5000 other Kurdish Yazidi women were captured and enslaved by ISIS. After years of pain and suffering, she finally escapes.

Derya Deniz – Director

*AFTER SCREENING*
Q&A with Wahhab Hassoo en journalist Fréderike Geerdink.

Sun 14 May 2023, 18:00, Screen 2

THE MOUNTAINS, A FEMININE

NARRATION

Duration: 21 mins
Type: Documentary
Year: 2022

Director & Producer:
Rebwar Mahmoud Pour

Country:
Kurdistan (Rojhelat)

Languages:
Kurdish (Sorani)

Synopsis:
This film is about waiting women who are looking at the mountains for their loved ones to return home.

Rebwar Mahmoud Pour – Director

THE MOUNTAINS, A FEMININE NARRATION will screen prior to HÊZA

Sun 14 May 2023, 18:00, Screen 2