Filmmaker Alba Sotorra Clua embedded for years with Kurdish women fighting ISIS. When the war ended, she turned her crew to the teenage girls who had been fighting for ISIS. There’s a camp in Syria for women who were previously members of ISIS. Some of these women were teenagers from the United States, England, the EU, and Canada who left their countries after seeing ISIS propaganda videos on social media. Once they got to the caliphate, the "revolution" turned out to be more of a scam. Now that ISIS has fallen and they can leave, the countries these women are from don’t want them back. An unlikely story emerged from the all-woman team on the ground inside their camp in the story The Return: Life After ISIS. Director Alba Sotorra Clua and editor Michael Nollet spoke with No Film School during the 2021 SXSW Film Festival to share insight on making a complex, compelling portrait of a world struggling to define reality. Read More...
Published By: NoFilmSchool - Tuesday, 6 April, 2021