Next July 1st, ‘Sinjar’ hits theaters, the story of three women in three parts of the world united by the same terror: the war in Syria. In Barcelona Carlota, played by Nora Navas, is desperate for her son Marc, who disappeared without a trace to join a radical Islamist group. Teenager Eman Eido plays Arjin, a girl who has been kidnapped from her home and after escaping she wishes to have her home and her family back, so she ends up joining the Kurdish militias.
In the Abu Omar house, Hadia (Halima Ilter) lives as a slave with her three children, being abused of all kinds to protect them. However, this nightmare is starting to hit the little ones and despair and fear are putting a strain on them. On her, on Hadia, shoot this clip of ‘Sinjar’ that we bring to you exclusively.
A team of women
‘Sinjar’ is written and directed by Anna Bofarull, director of ‘Sonata para cello’ and ‘Barcelona 1714’ and of the documentaries ‘Hammada’ and ‘Notas al pie’. Bofarull was inspired by the film when the Islamic State occupied much of Iraq and Syria in 2014 and came to mind the stories of hundreds of women kidnapped to be sold as sex slaves. He went to Sinjar, a city in northwestern Iraq near the Syrian border, to speak with those who had managed to escape. some with their children, some without them. In the case of Eido, the Yazidi actress who plays Arjin, she herself was kidnapped at just 9 and managed to escape at 13. ‘Sinjar’ is her film debut.
The cast of the film is completed by Guim Puig, Mouafaq Rushdie, Luisa Gavasa, Franz Harram, Álex Casanovas, Hennan Bereket Qasso, Samia Naif and Mercè Rovira. The filming of ‘Sinjar’ was marred by the global pandemic, forcing Bofarull to work with a small team made up only of women between Iraq and Barcelona. With 127 minutes of footage, we hear Catalan, Spanish, Arabic and Kurdish spoken in the film. ‘Sinjar’ arrives in Spanish cinemas on July 1st from Filmax.
Source: E Cartelera
