Waiting for Hassana

Waiting for Hassana (2017)

January 19th, 20170h 10min

Documentary
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In 2014, 276 teenage girls came together for exams in Chibok, Nigeria -- by dawn, nearly all had disappeared and their school was burnt. Jessica, an escapee, shares her haunting account of a friendship violently interrupted by Boko Haram.


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