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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 primarily 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) both love and admire their father and obey his words, but while Osama seems content to follow the path of Jihad, Ayman wants to go back to school. Winner of the Grand Jury Prize for World Documentary at the Sundance Film Festival, Of Fathers and Sons is a work of unparalleled intimacy that captures the chilling moment when childhood dies and jihadism is born.
Original Release
11/15/2017
US Release
11/16/2018
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Tia Alkerdi | |
Yara Ibrahim | |
Abu Osama | Himself / Self |
Ayman Osama | Self |
Osama Osama | Self |
Directors
Writers
Talal Derki, Abd-Elhamed Emad Taha
Cast
Name | Character |
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Tia Alkerdi | |
Yara Ibrahim | |
Abu Osama | Himself / Self |
Ayman Osama | Self |
Osama Osama | Self |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Dan Cogan | Executive Producer |
Geralyn White Dreyfous | Executive Producer |
Jenny Raskin | Executive Producer |
Talal Derki | Producer |
Frauke Ahlers | Producer |
Sebastian Alten | Producer |
Rolf Bergmann | Producer |
Claudia Bucher | Producer |
Hans Robert Eisenhauer | Producer |
Ansgar Frerich | Producer |
Gudrun Hanke-El Ghomri | Producer |
Kahtan Hassoun | Producer |
Eva Kemme | Producer |
Tobias Siebert | Producer |
Editors
Year | Type | Category | Won |
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2019 | Oscar | Best Documentary Feature | Nominated |