Antenna Documentary Film Festival

The Return – Life After ISIS

Alba Sotorra
Spain, UK
2021
90 min

The Return: Life After ISIS follows the highly controversial cases of several Western women who were radicalised as teenagers and travelled to Syria as ISIS recruits. After the collapse of the ISIS caliphate the women want to return to their native countries, but soon discover they’re not wanted. Left de facto stateless by their governments, they confront their truths and try to heal from their trauma in a Syrian refugee camp with the help of Kurdish women’s rights activists. With unprecedented access director Alba Sotorra enters the camp to meet these women, many now mothers, as they openly share their stories for the first time. The result is an unforgettable, moving and unsettling film that poses many ethical questions without offering any easy answers.

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