“Ana” crosses Kurdistan, in secret, to see her daughter Marya, whom she has not seen for 4 years. Like all the other Yazidi survivors, kidnapped in 2014, she was forced by her community to abandon her child born out of the rapes by ISIS jihadists. The fruit of eight years of investigations in Iraq and Syria, Hawar, our Banished Children is the first film to break this taboo.

For the first time, a Yazidi mother tells her story and gives voice to all the Yazidi survivors deprived of their children born from the rapes by the ISIS jihadists. Those children don’t have any official existence in Iraq and Syria. They live in orphanages, not knowing that their mothers are crying for them. We aim to shed light on this human tragedy, urgently give visibility to these children as their true identity risks disappearing, and supporting the moderate Yazidi personalities and families who would accept those children born of rapes.