Among the Believers
Directed by Mohammed Ali Naqvi & Mohammed Naqvi
The kind of film that’s actually useful in the debate about terrorism.
- Website
- Official Website
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Overview
- Genre
- Contemporary Issues
- Synopsis
Firebrand cleric Abdul Aziz Ghazi, an ISIS supporter and Taliban ally, is waging jihad
against the Pakistani government with the aim of imposing Shariah law. His primary
weapon is his expanding network of Islamic seminaries for children as young as four.
Among the Believers follows Aziz’s personal quest, and charts the lives of two of his
teenage students who are pawns in his ideological war.- Stage
- finished
- Running time
- 84 minutes
Credits
- Hemal Trivedi ... Director / Producer / Editor
- Mohammed Ali Naqvi ... Director
- Jonathan Goodman Levitt ... Producer / Writer
- Mohammed Naqvi ... Director
Production Details
- Prod. Co.
- Changeworx USA and Manjusha Films
- Country
- United States
- Years of Production
- 2009 to 2015
- Locations
- Pakistan, US
Distribution Details
- Release year
- 2015
- Festivals
- Tribeca Film Festival, AFI-Docs, Vancouver International Film Festival, CPH-DOX, Hollywood Film Festival, Tallgrass Film Festival, Chagrin Falls Film Festival, Middlebury FF, St. Luis FF, Seattle South Asian FF, Miami South Asian FF, Oaxaca FF
- Distribution
- Domestic sales -- Submarine Entertainment. Worldwide sales -- Cinephil
- Broadcast (Prod.)
- PBS
- Broadcast (Acq.)
- PBS
- Language
- Urdu, English
- Subtitles
- English, Spanish, Korean
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