‘Sinjar’: three women against the barbarism of ‘jihad’

‘sinja’

Address: Anna Bofarul

interpreters: Nora Navas, Halima Ilter, Iman Ido Koro, Guim Puig, Mouafaq Rushdie, Luisa Gavasa

Year: 2022

premiere: 1 July 2022

★★★

Three unrelated women with different conditions but the same problem, Islamic fundamentalism. A young woman who escaped from captivity and joined the Kurdish militia, a woman forced to work every night as a slave for a man who had the right to rape her, and a mother trying to understand why, her son (played by Nora Navas) went from Spain to fight for ‘jihad’. Catalan director Anna Bofarul Talk ‘sinja’ It is about women’s utter vulnerability in a world where men find themselves silenced and humiliated, where impotence is mixed with anger, and where there is a need to rebel against impositions in an overwhelming spiral of hatred and violence.

ambitious and sensitive

‘Sinjar’ is an ambitious film in terms of what it tells, but it’s also very sensitive in the way it tells it, in the way it approaches the three protagonists very closely, immersing us completely in their characteristics. hell every day. He bets this very respectfully, from a struggle and survival perspective, avoiding sentimentality, illuminating humanity in a barbarism that is as incomprehensible as it is real and imminent.