- This is POV .
I'm Pete Schwaba, host of Wisconsin Public Television's
Director's Cut .
Tonight on POV we bring you
a gritty and at times stomach-churning documentary
about war torn Iraq,
Zaradasht Ahmed's Nowhere to Hide .
Nowhere to Hide tells the story of Nori Sharif,
a male nurse in one of the most dangerous and inaccessible areas
in central war-torn Iraq known as the "Triangle of Death."
In 2011, as American and coalition troops
began pulling out of Iraq,
Sharif, a husband and father of four,
started filming stories of victims
and the dawn of a new hope in his country.
But before long, Sharif realized
that it wasn't hope that was on the rise,
it was the growth of ISIS.
Sharif went from filming survivors and their stories
to filming his own family's escape from their home
as his native city was destroyed.
In one haunting scene in particular,
Sharif's children pray that the "planes don't bomb them"
while at the same time
laughing at the possibility of such an atrocity.
Nowhere to Hide' s award-winning director,
Zaradasht Ahmed is of Kurdish and Norwegian descent
and was raised in Northern Iraq.
He says of his film, "In the end, as humans,
the only thing that can help us survive
is to believe that the will to build
will always be stronger than the desire to destroy."
Nowhere to Hide starts now on Wisconsin Public Television,
your home for independent film.