Syrian film wins best direction award at one world festival


(MENAFN) The best film award at the One World festival of human rights documentaries went to the Swedish film The Deminer and Talal Derki won the best direction award, for his film Of Fathers and Sons, a coproduction of Germany, Lebanon, Qatar and Syria, according to CTK.

Wednesday's awarding ceremony closed the Prague part of the annual festival. The event will now move to 36 other Czech towns, the jury choose the victorious best film and best direction from 12 films.

Father and sons is about Talal Derki who returns to his homeland where he gains the trust of a radical Islamist family, sharing their daily life for over two years. His camera is providing an extremely rare insight into what it means to grow up in an Islamic Caliphate.


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