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Video Movie Review: THE RETURN: LIFE AFTER ISIS: A Complicated Story of Tragedy that Isn’t Black & White [SXSW 2021]

Shamima Begum The Return Life After Isis

2021 SXSW The Return Life After ISIS Review

The Return: Life After ISIS (2021) Video Movie Review from the 28th Annual South By Southwest Film Festival,  a movie directed by Alba Sotorra, and starring Shamima Begum and Hoda Muthana.

Crew

Alba Sotorra wrote the screenplay for The Return: Life After ISIS. Mehmud Berazi and Josefina Rozenwasser created the music for the film. Gris Jordana, Núria Roldos, and Lara Vilanova crafted the cinematography for the film.

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Plot Synopsis

The Return: Life After ISIS‘ plot synopsis: “Shamima Begum and Hoda Muthana made it into worldwide headlines when they left their countries as teenagers to join ISIS. Now they want to return but their countries don’t want them back.”

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Rollo Tomasi

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