AMERICAN CINEMATOGRAPHER ASCMAG.COM S abaya is a harrowing documentary that focuses on one of the most despicable chapters of ISIS' four-year reign of terror: the kidnapping of thousands of Yazidi women from Northern Iraq, who were held captive as sex slaves. Kurdish/Swedish filmmaker Hogir Hirori cleverly chose to shoot the film from the perspective of a small group of volunteers dedicated to freeing the women from their ISIS slavemasters, allowing a ray of humanity to shine through the darkness, and rescuing the film from mind-numbing NOVEMBER 2021 / 37http://www.ASCMAG.COM