Of Fathers and Sons - The Children of the Caliphate

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Movie
Original title Of Fathers and Sons - The Children of the Caliphate
Country of production Germany , Syria , Lebanon
original language Arabic
Publishing year 2017
length 103 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Talal Derki
production Talal Derki,
Ansgar Frerich ,
Eva Kemme ,
Tobias N. Siebert ,
Hans Robert Eisenhauer
music KS Elias
camera Kahtan Hassoun
cut Anne Fabini

Of Fathers and Sons - The Children of the Caliphate is a documentary by Talal Derki , which premiered on November 15, 2017 at the International Documentary Festival Amsterdam and from January 19, 2018 as part of the Sundance Film Festival .

As part of the Oscar ceremony in 2019 was Of Fathers and Sons nominated for best documentary. The film won the German Film Awards 2019 in the categories of Best Documentary and Best Editing .

Plot / content

Talal Derki returns to his home country Syria, where he wins the trust of a radical Islamist family and shares their daily life for over two years. His camera focuses on Osama and his younger brother Ayman and provides an extremely rare glimpse of what it means to grow up in an Islamic caliphate.

production

Directed by Talal Derki

The director was the Syrian documentary filmmaker Talal Derki , who was born in Damascus and won first prize at the Geneva Film Festival and International Forum for Human Rights (FIFDH) for his latest film Homs - A Dream Shattered. In this film he portrayed the Syrian civil war from the perspective of the young fighter Basset. After completing the film, Derki said, “Syria threatens to become a new Afghanistan. When we get rid of Assad, the fight against the Islamists will continue. At the same time, the big players - the USA, Russia, Saudi Arabia and Iran - will continue to settle their conflicts of interest in Syria. ”As with Return to Homs , Derki returned to his home country for Of Fathers and Sons and went to the war zone. He lived there for two years in a small village in northern Syria with the family of Abu Osama, an Al-Nusra fighter, and aimed the camera primarily at the children, who are trained from an early age, following in the footsteps of their fathers step and become a warrior of God.

The film was supported by the Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program and received production grants from the Doha Film Institute, the Filmförderungsanstalt and the Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg in the amount of 60,000 euros. He received a distribution grant of 30,000 euros from the Filmförderungsanstalt.

The film premiered on November 15, 2017 at the International Documentary Festival Amsterdam and was shown from January 19, 2018 at the Sundance Film Festival , where it was awarded the World Cinema Documentary Grand Jury Prize. Derki dedicated this award to his new adopted home Berlin at the local award ceremony. Derki had already received an award at the Sundance Film Festival in 2014 for his documentary Return to Homs . In June 2018 it was shown at the SWR Doku Festival, where it was awarded the German Documentary Film Prize. "The film takes us into a strange, essentially disturbing world, without protection, but with great documentary patience," said the jury in its statement. In June and July 2018 the film was shown at the Munich Film Festival , where it was awarded the Catholic Fritz Gerlich Film Prize. The jury's justification stated that the filmmaker was reporting from a totalitarian system using his own life and giving insights into a world and a way of life that would otherwise remain closed to us. In August 2018 the film was shown at the Melbourne International Film Festival. In September 2018 a screening took place at the Camden International Film Festival, in October 2018 at the Hamptons International Film Festival. A theatrical release in Germany took place on March 21, 2019.

The soundtrack was composed by KS Elias . The soundtrack for the film, which comprises a total of 31 pieces of music, was released by Königskinder as a download on February 8, 2019.

reception

Reviews and use in school lessons

Variety's Guy Lodge says some may question whether the film has significant human and political insights beyond its terrifying portrayal of the radical process, and what Of Fathers and Sons shows its audience behind enemy lines isn't unexpected, but worrying because it does is presented so rarely and in detail and shows a clear, lively and unshakable point of view.

Christian Horn writes that the no-frills images provide unadulterated insights without forced dramatization. The fact that Talal Derki gets so close to the protagonists and even films them in a shed just behind the front is sensational enough.

Julia Haungs writes in her review at WDR2 that Derki impressively describes how radicalization works, or even worse, that the children who grow up in such an environment do not have to be radicalized at all: “They simply don't know anything other than the symbiosis of religion and violence . And there is also no corrective anywhere. Their worldview around jihad is so self-contained that they never even get the idea that there are alternatives. " Of Fathers and Sons show a pure male world in which women remained strangely invisible, so Haungs continues, and it does one would have been interested in what perspective they have. In view of these insights into a dark parallel world, it seems inconceivable how peace will ever be restored in Syria, in a country where for some people the path to becoming a jihadist begins on the day they are born.

The online portal kinofenster.de recommends Of Fathers and Sons for the subjects German , ethics , social studies / community studies , politics and religion and offers materials for the film for the classroom. Sarina Lacaf writes there that the film paints a complex picture of jihadism : “It brings the horrors of war together with the intimacy of the family, the protagonist of the film is a loving father and an ideologically established warrior . The ambivalence of this character, which runs counter to black and white drawings, can be the subject of discussion. "

Awards (selection)

Producer and sound mixer Ansgar Frerich at the German Film Prize 2019 with the Lola for the best documentary film

German Film Award 2019

German Documentary Film Award 2018

European Film Award 2018

  • Nomination for Best Documentary (Talal Derki)

Fritz Gerlich Film Award 2018

  • Award for Talal Derki

Independent Spirit Awards 2019

  • Nomination for Best Documentary (Talal Derki)

International Documentary Association Awards 2018

  • Nomination for best documentary
  • Nomination for Best Screenplay (Talal Derki)

Academy Awards 2019

  • Nomination for best documentary

Sarasota Film Festival 2018

  • Nomination for Best Documentary for the Jury Prize (Talal Derki)

Sundance Film Festival 2018

  • Awarded the World Cinema Documentary Grand Jury Prize (Talal Derki)

Web links

Commons : Of Fathers and Sons - The Children of the Caliphate  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ Sonja Zekri: Documentary 'Return to Homs': Now we are in a foreign country In: Süddeutsche Zeitung, October 28, 2014.
  3. ↑ Ines Kappert: Syrian filmmaker on diplomacy: 'Nobody will help civilians' In: taz.de, March 18, 2014.
  4. ↑ a b Of Fathers and Sons. In: idfa.nl. Retrieved January 23, 2019.
  5. ↑ https://www.ffa.de/aid=1394.html?newsdetail=20190204-1351_ffa-verektiven-zwei-mio-euro-verleih-und-videofoerderung
  6. ↑ 2018 Sundance Film Festival: Feature Films Announced. In: sundance.org, November 29, 2017.
  7. ↑ 'Of Fathers and Sons' from Basis Berlin invited to the World Cinema Competition of the Sundance Film Festival 2018 In: verbanddeutscherfilmproduierenden.de, December 2, 2017.
  8. ↑ Kate Erbland: 2018 Sundance Film Festival Awards Winners: 'The Miseducation of Cameron Post' and 'Kailash' Win Grand Jury Prizes In: indiewire.com, January 27, 2018.
  9. ^ German films in the Sundance competition. In: fnp.de, November 30, 2017.
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  11. ↑ https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/deutscher-dokumentarfilmpreis-fuer-of-fathers-and-sons.265.de.html?drn:news_id=898381
  12. ↑ https://www.filmfest-muenchen.de/de/programm/filme/film/?id=5698
  13. ^ A b Catholic Film Prize: Film about radical Islamic family. ( Memento of the original from July 4, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rtl.de archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: rtl.de, July 4, 2018.
  14. ↑ Of Fathers and Sons. In: miff.com. Retrieved July 13, 2018.
  15. ^ Scott Macaulay: Camden International Film Festival Announces 2018 Festival Slate and Storyforms VR Lineup. In: filmmakermagazine.com, August 24, 2018.
  16. ↑ Of fathers and sons In: hamptonsfilmfest.org. Retrieved September 18, 2018.
  17. ↑ Start dates Germany In: insidekino.com. Retrieved October 20, 2018.
  18. ↑ http://filmmusicreporter.com/2019/02/07/soundtrack-album-for-of-fathers-and-sons-to-be-released/
  19. ↑ Guy Lodge: Film Review: 'Of Fathers and Sons' In: Variety, November 23, 2017.
  20. ↑ https://www.programmkino.de/content/Filmkritiken/of-fathers-and-sons-kinder-des-kalifats/
  21. ↑ Julia Haungs: View into the Abyss - Documentary “Of Fathers and Sons. The Children of the Caliphate ”. In: swr.de, March 19, 2019.
  22. ↑ Of Fathers and Sons - The Children of the Caliphate. In: kinofenster.de. Retrieved March 24, 2019.
  23. ↑ German Film Award 2019. In: deutscher-filmpreis.de. Retrieved March 20, 2019.
  24. ^ German Documentary Award for “Of Fathers and Sons”. Berliner Morgenpost , June 30, 2018, archived from the original on June 30, 2018 . ;.
  25. ↑ Independent Spirit Awards: 'Eighth Grade,' 'First Reformed' Among Best Feature Nominees. In: The Hollywood Reporter, November 16, 2018.
  26. ↑ https://variety.com/2018/film/awards/ida-dcumentary-nominees-2018-crime-punishment-free-solo-minding-the-gap-1202990732/