WAITING FOR HASSANA

WAITING FOR HASSANA

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11 min

In 2014, the extremist organization Boko Haram kidnapped 276 teenage girls from a town in northeastern Nigeria. Waiting for Hassana is a harrowing first-person account of one girl’s escape from captivity and a heart-wrenching lament for her closest friend Hassana — one of the many girls still unaccounted for.

 

Director: Ifunanya Maduka
Producer: Ifunanya Maduka, Uzodinma Iweala
Cinematographer: Victor Okhai
Editor: Jennifer Tiexiera
Music: Saul Simon MacWilliams
Language: Hausa
Country: Nigeria
Year: 2017

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