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Producer(s):
ARTE G.E.I.E, FRANCE MEDIAS MONDE
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Territories:
Worldwide.
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Production year:
2021
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Language(s):
German, English, French
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Rights:
NON-THEATRICAL, TV, VOD, DVD, INTERNET
For over a decade, the northeastern Nigerian state of Borno and its neighboring countries have been torn apart by the Islamist insurgency.
Fatima, 26, was forcibly married to a Boko Haram commander. She did so to avoid her son being used as a child soldier by the Islamist sect. But since then, her family has disowned her and has been calling her a "Boko Haram wife." Falmata, a 50-year-old woman, had a bounty on her head ordered by the terrorist group for being a businesswoman. She barely survived, but lost everything in Bama, her hometown, and does not know how to feed her eight dependent children. As for Mala, 70 years old, he survived a recent massacre of peasants - but has been afraid to go to the fields ever since. Liberated after seven months, the city looks like an entrenched camp today. The schools, despised by the Islamists, are no longer empty. But the countryside remains subject to racketeering and attacks by the Islamists.