THE RETURN: LIFE AFTER ISIS
The Return: Life after ISIS
Shamima Begum (UK) and Hoda Muthana (US) made it into worldwide headlines when they left their countries as teenagers to join ISIS. Now they want to return but their countries don’t want them back. Filmed in the high-security Camp Roj in Syria, which houses ISIS women and children that no Western country wants back, and Kurds have no choice but to look after.
The Return: Life after ISIS / Alba Sotorra / Spain, United Kingdom / 2021 / 90 min.
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