This two-part event is organised as part of the Genocidal Captivity exhibition events series. Content warning: Please note that this film contains descriptions of sexual violence.

Join Dr Becky Jinks, curator of the Genocidal Captivity exhibition for a special two-part film screening event and QA with the film’s director, Suzanne Khardalian. In Part II, Inside Her, Inside Me (68 min) will be screened.

Suzanne Khardalian will join the event via Zoom to discuss the film and answer questions from the audience.

Swedish Suzanne Khardalian’s film tells the stories of young Yezidi women in southern Germany. They were brought there through a unique project of the German federal state Baden-Württemberg, which received 1100 young Yazidi women with the help of the Kurdish local government in northern Iraq. This was a secret project, but finally Suzanne managed to reach out to Yazidi women in Germany. For nearly three years, she followed Ghason, Dalal and Lamia closely, recording their experiences held in ISIS captivity. The film is told through their point of view.

About the Speakers

Suzanne Khardalian is an independent filmmaker and writer. She studied journalism in Beirut and Paris and worked as a journalist in Paris until 1988 when she started to work with films. She holds a Masters Degree in International Law and Diplomacy from Fletcher School at Tuft’s University and contributes with articles to different journals. She has directed a dozen films that have been shown both in Europe and the United States.

Dr. Becky Jinks is a historian of comparative genocide and humanitarianism at Royal Holloway, University of London. The Genocidal Captivity exhibition, which she has co-curated with Dr Christine Schmidt (Deputy Director and Director of Research at the Wiener Holocaust Library), forms part of her AHRC-funded research project Genocidal captivity: (Re)telling the stories of Armenian and Yezidi women survivors, 1915 and 2014. The project builds on her earlier work on international humanitarian organisations’ treatment of ‘absorbed’ Armenian women in the aftermath of the genocide.