In August 2014, ISIS swept into Sinjar, a town in northern Iraq and home to many of the country’s Yazidis, a Kurdish-speaking ethnic and religious minority long subjected to persecution. Regarding the Yazidis as infidels, ISIS killed thousands and enslaved thousands of women and girls, in what is now widely recognised as genocide.

The short documentary Into the Fire follows Hana Khider, a Yazidi woman who heads an all-female de-mining team. Khider works for the Mines Advisory Group, one of the founding members of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, which shared the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize with its coordinator, Jody Williams. The perilous work of Khider’s crew consists of searching for and deactivating hidden explosives left by ISIS, some disguised as everyday objects, including children’s toys.…