OF FATHERS AND SONS

Director

Talal Derki

Producers

Ansgar Frerich

Eva Kemme

Hans Robert Eisenhauer

Tobias Siebert

Cinematographer

Kahtan Hasson

Editor

Anne Fabini

Music

Sebastian Tesch

Website

Contact

<p>BASIS BERLIN FILM PRODUCTION
Entrance Ehrenbergstraße
Rudolfstrasse 1-8
10245 Berlin, Germany
+49.30. 588 43 99-0
[email protected]</p>

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2017

Germany, Syria, Lebanon

99 min

Color

After his Sundance award-winning documentary Return to Homs, Talal Derki returned to his homeland where he gained the trust of a radical Islamist family, sharing their daily life for over two years. His camera focuses mainly 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) are in the center of the story. They both love and admire their father and obey his words, but while Osama seems to follow the path of Jihad, Ayman wants to go back to school. The film captures the moment when the children have to let go of their youth and are finally turned into Jihadi fighters.

Directors' Biography

<p>Talal Derki was born in Damascus and is based in Berlin since 2014. He studied film directing in Athens and worked as an assistant director for many feature film productions and was a director for different Arab TV programs between 2009 and 2011. Furthermore, he worked as a freelance cameraman for CNN and Thomson & Reuters. Talal Derkis short films and feature length documentaries received many awards at a variety of festivals. His feature documentary RETURN TO HOMS has won the Sundance Film Festival’s World Cinema Grand Jury Prize in 2014. The same year, he was also a member of the international Jury at IDFA.</p>

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