OF FATHERS AND SONS (18+)
Germany, Syria, Lebanon, Qatar, 2017, 98 min.
Director: TALAL DERKI
Director: TALAL DERKI
Talal Derki returns to his homeland where he gains the trust of a radical Islamist family, sharing their daily life for over two years. His camera focuses on Osama and his younger brother Ayman, providing an extremely rare insight into what it means to grow up in an Islamic Caliphate.
AWARDS
Sundance (USA, 2018) – Grand Jury Prize, World Cinema Documentary Competition, Open Borders Fellowship Award presented by Netflix; ZagrebDox (Croatia, 2018) – Big Stamp, Movies That Matter Award; Ljubljana Doc Film Festival (Slovenia, 2018) – Best Film Award presented by Amnesty International; Krakow FF (Poland, 2018) – The Golden Horn, FIPRESCI award; Parnu International Documentary and Anthropology Film Festival (Estonia, 2018) – Grand Prize; Filmfest Munich (Germany, 2018) – Fritz Gerlich Award; IDFF Flahertiana (2018) – Grand Prix for the Best Film of the Festival.
TALAL DERKI
TALAL DERKI
was born in Damascus. 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. Multiple participant and prize-winner of international film festivals.
FILMOGRAPHY
Hello Damascus Goodbye Damascus, 2003; A Whole Line of Trees, 2005; Hero of the Sea, 2010; Return to Homs, 2013; Ode to Lesvos, 2016; Of Fathers and Sons, 2017.
Germany, Syria, Lebanon, Qatar, 2017, 98 min.
Director: TALAL DERKI
Director: TALAL DERKI
Talal Derki returns to his homeland where he gains the trust of a radical Islamist family, sharing their daily life for over two years. His camera focuses on Osama and his younger brother Ayman, providing an extremely rare insight into what it means to grow up in an Islamic Caliphate.
AWARDS
Sundance (USA, 2018) – Grand Jury Prize, World Cinema Documentary Competition, Open Borders Fellowship Award presented by Netflix; ZagrebDox (Croatia, 2018) – Big Stamp, Movies That Matter Award; Ljubljana Doc Film Festival (Slovenia, 2018) – Best Film Award presented by Amnesty International; Krakow FF (Poland, 2018) – The Golden Horn, FIPRESCI award; Parnu International Documentary and Anthropology Film Festival (Estonia, 2018) – Grand Prize; Filmfest Munich (Germany, 2018) – Fritz Gerlich Award; IDFF Flahertiana (2018) – Grand Prix for the Best Film of the Festival.