Of Fathers And Sons

Description

After his Sundance award-winning documentary Return to Homs (2013), Talal Derki returned to his Syrian fatherland where he gained the agree with of a radical Islamist circle of relatives, sharing their day-to-day life for over two years. His camera focuses primarily on the children, providing an extremely rare insight into what it means to grow up with a father whose only dream is to establish an Islamic caliphate. Osama (13) and his brother Ayman (12) both love and admire their father and obey his words, but even as Osama turns out content to follow the path of Jihad, Ayman wants to return to university. Winner of the Grand Jury Prize for World Documentary on the Sundance Film Festival, Of Fathers and Sons is a work of unparalleled intimacy that captures the chilling moment when childgood dies and jihadism is born.