On Her Shoulders is a 2018 American documentary film. It was directed by Alexandria Bombach and produced by Hayley Pappas, Brock Williams and Elizabeth Schaeffer Brown under the banner of RYOT Films. The film follows Iraqi Yazidi human rights activist Nadia Murad on her three-month tour of Berlin, New York, and Canada, as she met with politicians and journalists to alert the world to the massacres and kidnapping happening in her native land. In 2014, at the age of 19, Murad had been kidnapped with hundreds of other women and girls by Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) and held as a sex slave; she managed to escape. Also appearing in the film are Barack Obama, Ban Ki-moon, Murad Ismael, Simone Monasebian, Michelle Rempel, Borys Wrzesnewskyj, Ahmed Khudida Burjus, Amal Clooney, and Luis Moreno Ocampo. The film was released on 20 January 2018 at the Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Documentary Directing Award and the Grand Jury Prize. It received positive critical reviews. Background In August 2014, Nadia Murad, aged 19, was captured by ISIS in Iraq along with hundreds of other Yazidi men and women. She and other young women were taken to Mosul, where they were held as sex slaves. Murad later told Time: "I did not want to kill myself – but I wanted them to kill me". In November 2014, she was able to escape after her captors left a door open, and ran away to safety. After the escape, she was transported to a refugee camp. Cast Nadia Murad Murad Ismael Simone Monasebian Michelle Rempel Borys Wrzesnewskyj Ahmed Khudida Burjus Amal Clooney Luis Moreno Ocampo Barack Obama Ki-moon Ban Production Development RYOT FILMS was introduced to Nadia Murad by the Former ICC Prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo and Entrepreneur Elizabeth Schaeffer Brown, who initiated a campaign to bring ISIS to the ICC. In 2015, film director Alexandria Bombach first heard about Murad, after seeing her UN Security Council speech. In July 2016, RYOT Films reached out to Bombach to direct a short film about Murad. Bombach met Murad two weeks later and, after meeting her, she wanted to put her in a feature film "to not only do justice to her story", but also because "[they] were the only ones with the access [to Murad] and so it felt like a huge responsibility to bring justice to it and bring nuance to