Waiting for Hassana (2017)
• January 19th, 2017 • 0h 10min
Documentary
Overview
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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