"THE VOICES YOU DON'T HEAR"
Documentary Series
Project description
“The Voices You Don’t Hear” is a multi-part documentary series about people living in crisis and conflict regions whose daily lives encompass far more than trauma: they build community, carry responsibility, and create hope and future. The first season begins in Northern Iraq — with the story of a young Yazidi woman who, after years in a camp, now stands up for a just future for her community, navigating political engagement, remembrance, and the attempt to build a life of her own.
Logline
Iman, a young Yazidi woman and survivor of ISIS captivity, fights in Sharya for a just future for her people and against forgetting. By confronting her trauma, she searches for healing and identity — and brings hope to a place where there had long been none.
Status
- currently in development
- trailer set to be released in 2026
Short synopsis
The series opens with Iman Abdullah Hamad, who was abducted, enslaved, and sold multiple times at the age of 13. After her escape, she begins a new life in Sharya — suspended between loss, responsibility, and the attempt to rediscover herself. Her own camera becomes her tool of remembrance, her voice, and a protective space. Through video diaries, visual fragments, and observational documentary work, a cinematic language emerges that allows intimacy without intrusion.
“The voices you don't hear” weaves Iman’s personal journey together with the collective trauma of the Yazidi community — laying the foundation for a series that will bring further marginalized voices into focus.
Team
- Director / Writer – Kim Aimée Armann
- Co-Director – Iman Abdullah (Northern Iraq)
- Co-Producer & Camera – Alicja Pahl (Switzerland)
- Photography, Translation & Visual Collaboration – Seivan Salim (Iraq)
- Local Partner – Jinda Center (Northern Iraq)
- Supported by – Aargauer Kuratorium / Project Development Grant
PROJECT
"BETWEEN THE LINES"
Documentary Podcast
Project description
“Between the Lines” is a documentary podcast about art in exile. It follows artists who have survived war, displacement or exclusion — and who use their creative work to preserve memory, reclaim identity and show how resistance can sound quiet but powerful.
The podcast opens intimate spaces for stories that are often fragmented or filtered in traditional media, combining personal narrative with cultural journalism.
Logline
A podcast about how art becomes memory – and how memory becomes resilience.
Status
- The first four episodes are currently being developed and pitched to production companies and podcast networks.
Format & Narrative Approach
Each episode (30–40 minutes) blends narrative storytelling with interview passages, scene-based descriptions and short quoted readings.
Listeners follow the artists into their present lives – studios, rehearsal rooms, film sets – and experience how personal moments weave together with journalistic context and historical background.
Protagonists (in development / pitching phase)
- Shaam – Syrian actress and director; fled to Germany after the violent crackdown on the Arab Spring protests; reunites with her mother after ten years
- Zinah – Yazidi painter; left Iraq after surviving IS violence; transforms memory, loss and cultural identity into abstract visual language
- Lina – Lebanese actress; grew up between Beirut and the Ruhr area; processes daily discrimination and reinvents her own visibility
- Najiba – Afghan documentary filmmaker; her film “Writing Hawa” explores three generations of women; forced into exile after the Taliban takeover