Iraq’s Lost Generation

  • Completed

  • Direction

    Anne Poiret
  • Production

    Cinétévé
  • Broadcaster

    France Télévisions
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Synopsis

There are about several tens of thousands of “children of ISIS”, whose families had pledged allegiance to the caliphate. They’re stigmatized, and their existence is not legally recognized in “Post-ISIS” Iraq. Without I.Ds, they have no access to medical care, food assistance, nor, above all, to education. This unprecedented investigation offers a voice to those minors, the social outcasts of a new Iraq that only a handful of NGOs are trying to help. Around the Mosul area, in Iraqi Kurdistan and Northeastern Syria, this documentary takes the form of a journey on war-torn lands, to meet this generation who endured the reign of the Islamic State, a war for liberation and its resulting violence, and now tries to find a future, between resilience and revenge. 

    • Available versions

      French, English
    • Festival

      International Emmy Award for Best Documentary - 2022