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‘Sabaya’ Review: Devastating Doc on the Frontline Fight to Rescue Women and Girls From ISIS Slavery

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Jessica Kiang Mahmud is on his cellphone and he can’t get through. It’s the first image in Hogar Hirori’s startling “Sabaya,” an intense, deeply embedded documentary following the painstaking and perilous rescue of Yazidi women (a Kurdish religious minority), from enslavement by ISIS, aka Daesh.

It will not be the last time a call is dropped, a signal lost or a ringback tone times out — it becomes a recurring motif, a matter-of-fact reminder of all the people who can’t be reached.The Al-Hol camp, on the Syrian side of the Syrian-Iraqi border, is the most notorious in the Middle East.

Its acres of ramshackle tents house 73,000 refugees displaced in the ongoing battle between the Syrian Democratic Forces and Daesh.

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