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I watched this film in the Pune International film Festival 2019 with a group of 16 students. And everyone was just blow away after watching it.

There are many reasons for it but the foremost reason is the sheer honesty with which it is made. The director Talal just put the facts in front of the audience without taking any sides. He has painstakingly lived with an ISIS supporter & his family for two years and shown their life as it is. He is neither criticizing anyone nor praising anyone. And it leads us sympathizing with an ISIS supporter and their family. This sympathy doesn't mean we supporting ISIS & it's supporters but instead we feel sorry for them.

The film presents the naked face of any extremist movement. But at the same time it shows the movements' supporter as normal human being who are as mortal as anyone else.

And to me that is the victory of this film.

Islam had been compromised. Am afriad this war is never gonna be over.

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A completely unbiased story - it takes no sides whatsoever - that took 2 years to make. It exposes the day to day teachings, of hate and murder, of an idiot, lowlife and uneducated father to his sons. We are shown how the next generation of, twisted Jihadist rhetoric, chauvinistic and future barbaric murderers are brainwashed from an early age (younger than 2 to 3 years of age). The twisting of a way of faith that - with each generation of children - will one day become so distant from the real teachings of Allah that, Islam will be a split faith like Christianity; when it separated into Catholics and Protestants.

Its a must see for all - especially non Muslim - people of the world, in so much as it will give them some sort of understanding of how, and why, we are all suffering from this barbaric brutality mindset - of a group of twisted evil Jihad men and women; distorting the true teachings of Islam to benefit their own wants, needs and greed!

Talal Derki's homeland is in disarray. He travels back to uncover the complex web Jihadists from ISIS and al-Nusra have spun in response to the enemies of God. Following the family of one minesweeper for the al-Nusra front, the film has a disturbing yet enlightening effect. This father passes his core fanatical beliefs onto his three sons. They are a tightly knit family, but the father's teachings play out in more consequential ways than he might have imagined. The eldest son, Osama, named after the mastermind behind the 9/11 attacks, is particularly disruptive among his schoolmates. The two younger sons are fostered to think violence for the sake of violence is acceptable because God willed it so. It is very tragic to witness the path these boys are led down only to become part of a war machine that may never succeed against more technologically advanced world superpowers. I highly recommend watching this documentary if you want to take a much deeper look into the Global War on Terrorism and how Islamist extremists are cultured.

"Trying to hide my immense fear, I said goodbye to my wife and son." Going deep into a family of terrorists and directing a ducumentery itself is so shocking and fearful. A story of the intergenerational production of terrorist, the dust, the smog, the prayer, all of them just be told so calmly, but all have a great mania. Like the pure black smog rising in the end, the story is a long nightmare.