Of Fathers And Sons
Year
2017
Runtime
98 mins
Language
Arabic
Subtitles
English
Posing as a war photographer and embedding himself with a family immersed in intergenerational warfare, exiled Syrian filmmaker Talal Derki’s follows up his award-winning RETURN TO HOMS (played at Calgary Film 2014) with another riveting portrait of his decimated homeland.
For more than two years, Derki lived with Abu Osama, an Al-Nusra fighter in a remote village in Northern Syria. Osama’s dedication to his beliefs are inculcating his children to follow in his footsteps. As his young sons are radicalized at a jihadist camp where they literally jump through hoops of fire, this Sundance Grand Jury Prize-winning documentary contrasts the horrors of war with devotion to family.
Written by Alexander Rogalski
Sundance
IFDA
- Director
- Talal Derki
- Executive Producer
- Dan Cogan, Jenny Raskin, Geralyn White Dreyfous
- Producer
- Ansgar Frerich, Eva Kemme, Tobias Siebert, Hans Robert Eisenhauer
- Cinematographer
- Kahtan Hasson
- Editor
- Anne Fabini
- Music
- K.S. Elias