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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Running time: Running time: 95 MIN.
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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