The Return: Life After ISIS

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The Return: Life After ISIS

2021

1h 30m

Documentary

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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.

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The Return is unafraid to explore shades of moral gray and is all the better for it, providing a humane and nonjudgmental view of subjects who otherwise may not inspire sympathy.

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Anita Singh

Daily Telegraph (UK)

What the film did convey though, was that there are young children living in Roj in the most desperate conditions.

Rated: 4/5

Jun 16, 2021

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Lucy Mangan

Guardian

Beyond the questions it poses about governmental responsibilities towards its people... this is a film that makes you interrogate yourself more than any other I can remember.

Rated: 4/5

Jun 16, 2021

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Katie Rosseinsky

London Evening Standard

This moral messiness makes the film a gruelling, constantly unsettling watch. It doesn't offer up easy answers because there aren't any - it does, however, give us a glimmer of hope.

Rated: 4/5

Jun 16, 2021

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Shane Slater

Awards Radar

The Return is thus a suitably challenging documentary about a uniquely complicated subject.

Rated: 3/4

Dec 30, 2021

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Jason Gorber

POV Magazine

The Return speaks to generations affected by these conflicts and leaves us both informed and no less certain about what the just solution to the situation of these survivors should be.

Jun 16, 2021

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Ricardo Gallegos

La Estatuilla

A documentary fueled by compassion. [Full Review in Spanish]

May 6, 2021

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Alba Sotorra

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Júlia Berenguer

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Carles Torras

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Synopsis

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.

Director: Alba Sotorra
Producer: Alba Sotorra, Vesna Cudic, Carles Torras
Screenwriter: Júlia Berenguer, Alba Sotorra
Genre: Documentary
Original Language: European Spanish
Runtime: 1h 30m