(CBC) Hamilton native Kimberly Polman is among former ISIS brides featured in The Return: Life After ISIS by Alba Sotorra Clua and her Barcelona-based production company, and the filmmaker hopes the new documentary will give insight into the issues surrounding repatriation.
Sotorra Clua said the documentary, currently one of the films being shown digitally during the Hot Docs Festival, focuses on the plight of Polman and other women from Western countries who joined the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, but then came to regret it.
“This brings a different light on the issues and the question of repatriation,” Sotorra Clua told CBC News via telephone from Barcelona.
“Civil society, politicians and policymakers — it can make them rethink the way we are dealing with this issue.”
