A solid contribution to the global documentary heritage is what Pascale Bourgaux with Hawar, Our Banished Children brought to the table in 2023. The horrors of the already-known story of the sexual enslavement of Yazidi women captured by Daesh jihadists, bring with them this time the necessary background perspective to understand the dilemma of the liberated women returning to their community...

Motherland is above everything – this is the idea, which goes through the whole documentary film – although the harsh picture we are shown completely mirrors the reality, too.

Throughout history, it has been clear that women's bodies belong to anyone but themselves.