The news headlines might have largely moved on from stories of the conflict in Syria and Islamic State, but as this news documentary, chiefly shot in the Roj refugee camp in the north-east of the country shows, moving on is not something that many of the 1500 Isis brides and their children who live there are being allowed to do, even if they want to - as countries across the globe are denying their citizenship.
The most familiar face in Alba Sotorra Clua's film, at least to a British audience, is that of Shamima Begum. The Londoner first made headlines as a 15-year-old when she ran away with two of her school friends to join the Isis Caliphate in Syria and returned to them in 2019 when she was located, nine months pregnant and her friends already dead, in the refugee camp. US viewers, meanwhile, will recognise the name of Hoda Muthana,...
The most familiar face in Alba Sotorra Clua's film, at least to a British audience, is that of Shamima Begum. The Londoner first made headlines as a 15-year-old when she ran away with two of her school friends to join the Isis Caliphate in Syria and returned to them in 2019 when she was located, nine months pregnant and her friends already dead, in the refugee camp. US viewers, meanwhile, will recognise the name of Hoda Muthana,...
- 6/9/2021
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
2021 SXSW The Return Life After Isis Review — The Return: Life After Isis (2021) Video Movie Review from the 28th Annual South By Southwest Film Festival, a movie directed by Alba Sotorra, and starring Shamima Begum and Hoda Muthana. Crew Alba Sotorra wrote the screenplay for The Return: Life After Isis. Mehmud Berazi and Josefina [...]
Continue reading: Video Movie Review: The Return: Life After Isis: A Complicated Story of Tragedy that Isn’t Black & White [SXSW 2021]...
Continue reading: Video Movie Review: The Return: Life After Isis: A Complicated Story of Tragedy that Isn’t Black & White [SXSW 2021]...
- 5/7/2021
- by Andrew Toy
- Film-Book
World premiere of Mark Cousins’ ‘The Story Of Looking’ will close the UK documentary festival.
Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson’s Summer Of Soul (…Or When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised) will open the UK’s Sheffield Doc/Fest 2021 (June 4-13). The festival has united with UK cinemas for the first time to simultaneously premiere the documentary.
The festival will close with the world premiere of Mark Cousins’ The Story Of Looking, which will also debut simultaneously at several partner cinemas around the UK, including London’s BFI Southbank, Glasgow Film Theatre and Home in Manchester.
This year’s Doc/Fest...
Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson’s Summer Of Soul (…Or When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised) will open the UK’s Sheffield Doc/Fest 2021 (June 4-13). The festival has united with UK cinemas for the first time to simultaneously premiere the documentary.
The festival will close with the world premiere of Mark Cousins’ The Story Of Looking, which will also debut simultaneously at several partner cinemas around the UK, including London’s BFI Southbank, Glasgow Film Theatre and Home in Manchester.
This year’s Doc/Fest...
- 4/22/2021
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
At irregular intervals throughout Alba Sotorra’s stirring, sobering and vitally humane new documentary “The Return: Life after Isis,” discreet titles appear to define the foreign terms that crop up. The small group of Western women in this Syrian detention camp are from all over — Canada, the U.S., the U.K., the Netherlands, Germany — and speak in differently accented, more or less fluent English. But with the regime that until recently defined them fallen, with their own countries refusing their return and with the wider world regarding them with hostility if not outright hatred, the few Arabic words they all use are piquant markers of their shared experiences as “Isis wives” — a short glossary of regret, shame and despite everything, hope.
Sotorra’s film is put together with remarkable poise and intelligence, considering the fraught territory it traverses. Quickly but comprehensively, using newsreel footage and archival clips, she begins...
Sotorra’s film is put together with remarkable poise and intelligence, considering the fraught territory it traverses. Quickly but comprehensively, using newsreel footage and archival clips, she begins...
- 3/27/2021
- by Jessica Kiang
- Variety Film + TV
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