film profile] follows a fifty-something Chilean-Swedish musician,
Patricio Galvez, whose daughter Amanda at some stage embraced Muslim radicalism, together with her mother. Amanda ended up marrying one of Sweden’s most notorious ISIS terrorists,
Michael Skråmo, and fleeing her country to join the caliphate in Syria in 2014. Five years later, Amanda and Michael are killed and their seven young children are interned in the al-Hol prison camp. They are infamously called “Children of the Enemy.” Even though these children are supposed to hold a Swedish passport, the authorities seem reluctant to allow their entry and find a solution to the ongoing diplomatic case. Galvez’s first attempts to bring them back through diplomatic channels fail, so he decides to embark on a high-risk journey to rescue his grandchildren, accompanied by Glaser-Müller, one of his closest friends.
Children of the Enemy Review: Fighting for the Children of ISIS Fighters Children of the Enemy Review: Fighting for the Children of ISIS Fighters
A grandfather s tense, tireless efforts to rescue his seven grandchildren from the camp they ve been in since their ISIS-loyal parents died.
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Whenever we see them, the seven contested children at the heart of Gorki Glaser-Müller’s taut, highly emotive “Children of the Enemy” have their eyes blurred over, to help protect their identities. It’s a strangely reassuring element in a film that at certain moments may be watched through nail-bitten fingers: If the seven grandkids of Patricio Galvez, the tenacious Chilean-Swedish musician fighting to get them out of Syria, need such protections, it must mean that they are still alive an assumption anything but guaranteed by their pitiably malnourished state and the precarious
28/04/2021 - Gorki Glaser-Müller’s documentary tells the moving story of a “Grandpa Courage” who embarks on a high-risk journey to rescue his seven grandchildren
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