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Of Fathers and Sons

When We Were Young: All Films • 1h 38m

Talal Derki • 2017 • Germany-Syria • A father trains his sons to join the global jihad.

Aged twelve and thirteen respectively, Ayman and Osama live with their father in Idlb province, Syria. Their father, an avowed al-Nusra fighter, is training them to join the global jihad. Feigning fundamentalist sympathies, Syrian filmmaker Talal Derki embedded himself for two years inside a radical Islamist family to capture the ideology of extremism.

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