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Original title: Imad's Childhood
Year: 2021
Running time: 77 min.
Country: Iraq
Director: Zahavi Sanjavi
Screenwriter: Zahavi Sanjavi
Cast: Documentary
Cinematography: Heshmatolla Narenji
Producer: Co-production Iraq-Sweden-Latvia;
Fenixfilm, Svenska Filminstitutet. Distributor: Journeyman Pictures
Genre: Documentary | Childhood. Terrorism
Synopsis: After two and a half years in captivity, Imad, his little brother Idan, and their mother Ghazala are released into a displaced persons' camp in Kurdistan. Healing from the trauma is hard for all of them, but it seems Imad is having a particularly tough time. Not yet five, he has already spent over half his life enduring terror, abuse, and "training" meant to make him heartless. Speaking only Arabic, he cannot communicate with his family, and the only means of expression at his disposal is violence. He hits and spits, and his only game is pretending to be an ISIS fighter who shoots, blows things up, and kills. This poignant film follows him as he takes hesitant steps on the hard road to recovery, guided and held by his mother, his grandmother, and an incredibly supportive therapist.

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Imad's Childhood

2021

Zahavi Sanjavi