A Yazidi-led short documentary

Iraq used to be home to more than 550,000 Yazidis. More than 360,000 Yazidis remain displaced eight years since Da’esh launched their genocide campaign in Sinjar on August 3, 2014. The Yazidi Genocide has left Sinjar and Sinjaris deeply vulnerable like never before. This first Yazidi-led short documentary investigates the precarious situation in Sinjar today and highlights the colossal long-term consequences of the Yazidi Genocide eight years in.

On camera, Yazidi survivors and community members share their ongoing fight against community extermination. Their many voices present a new human light on the ongoing devastation that has left Sinjar unsuitable for community and human life. Scenes of the infrastructural, economic, and social destruction markedly demonstrate how the Yazidi people are today being subjugated by political inaction from national and international stakeholders. Will the world finally listen and act?

Directed by Mohamad Chreyteh, this short documentary has been commissioned, funded, and co-produced by Lynn Zovighian and The Zovighian Partnership to serve as a public advocacy asset for the Yazidi people.

Special thanks is due to Yazda, a Yazidi community institution, for organizing the participation of Yazidi survivors and community members in this short documentary, in line with survivor ethical protocols. All participants understood their rights and provided their full consent to be featured in writing.