[1] It won the Grand Jury Prize at Doc NYC in New York City.

[2] In the summer of 2014, when she was 10 years old, Alhamad and her Yazidi family were kidnapped from their village during the Sinjar massacre in northern Iraq, by Islamic State (IS).

After she was released and living in a camp for internally displaced people in Iraqi Kurdistan, c. 2019 she met American documentary filmmaker Oswald.

Oswald gave her a film camera and with it she told her family's story, as well as documented the challenges she faced after captivity.

[3] Mediha had its world premiere on November 12, 2023 at Doc NYC in New York City.