The Experience Virtual Reality · Part 2 of 2

Immersive Iraq Rescue Process Simulation

We rebuilt the ride out — the camp, the search, the choice to help — in volumetric virtual reality, so anyone can travel to Iraq and stand inside the story.

Nova Media / Unreal Engine 5 / Volumetric Live Action

Not a re-enactment — a place. You travel to Iraq. You meet three Yazidi children who escaped ISIS. You learn their plan to find their missing family — and you help them succeed.

What follows are frames from that world. It was made to do one thing witnessing alone can't: turn distance into presence, and presence into hope.

I · The mission

In-game shop with a cart, supply shelves, a story-and-side-quest board, and a car outside — Coins, supplies, story and side quests — the real logistics of a rescue, made playable

A VHS tape and a handwritten note beside a child's drawn face

"Maybe if my mom sees my video, she will have the courage to return."
A tape left behind · found inside the house

II · Qadia — where they live now

Thousands of tents on the plain below Sinjar Mountain. Hover a frame to step closer.

Aerial view of the Qadia displacement camp, rows of tents in the desert — Thousands of tents on the plain below Sinjar Mountain

Camp lanes with laundry lines strung between tents — Ordinary life, held together with rope and cloth

The camp at night, a fire burning under a field of stars — Nightfall — one fire, and a sky that doesn't forget

III · Signs of return

A worn sacred book and a candle beside a map marking the route to Qadia camp at sunrise — Faith and a route home — the road from Mosul to Qadia, drawn in blue

An altar at dusk with a peacock nearby, the sacred bird of the Yazidi faith — The peacock — Tawûsî Melek, sacred in Yazidi faith

A carved Level 2 marker beside a field of red poppies and floating lights — Poppies and fireflies mark the way forward

IV · Mediha's screen

A cinema inside the game showing Mediha holding a camera to her own face, the title MEDIHA below — She turned the camera on herself — the film, waiting at the center of the world we built

The film’s festival record

V · The people who built it

A production office with a wall of team portraits, the Iraqi and Kurdistan flags, and maps — The crew wall — the credits are a room you can stand in

A production desk with maps of Iraq and Syria and the Kurdistan flag on the wall — Where the maps were read and the plan was made

VI · The route we drove to get here

Cannes to Dohuk, by road.

Cannes → Rome → Bari → ferry → Kavala → Keşan → Ankara → Silopi → Dohuk

≈ 4,800 km · Cannes to Dohuk · 8 stops

VII · The field dispatches Restricted

Five reels from the road out. Preview them here, unlock them with the crew code.

Every hour of the ride out was logged, labeled, and locked in the field archive. It is all here — the dead engine, the bus that would not end, the 4 a.m. knock. Hover a tile to see a few seconds. The full reels are sealed behind an access code.

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DISPATCH I

Belonging & Finding Home

A talk about home, cut short by six cops.

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DISPATCH II

Turkish Car Troubles

The engine died. Nobody wanted the corpse.

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DISPATCH III

30 Hours to the Border

A coach to nowhere friendly.

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DISPATCH IV

Detained, Released, Repeat

A 4 a.m. knock. A shouting match.

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DISPATCH V

The Longest Day

East meets West, and won't shut up.

Hover to preview. Click a reel and enter the crew access code to watch it in full.

Three children are still searching for their family.

In here, you can help them look — and beyond it, you can help for real.

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Cannes to Dohuk, by road.

Five reels from the road out. Preview them here, unlock them with the crew code.

Three children are still searching for their family.

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