This year, Derki won Sundance’s World Cinema Documentary Grand Jury Prize for To gain access to Idlib province, Derki learned to mimic the vocabulary used by new recruits to the jihadi movement.“Before the war, everything was taboo,” Derki begins, explaining how telling complex stories was hard in Syria. Do they understand that this is a filmmaker — a secular Syrian of Kurdish descent — who risked his life to go undercover and spend two years with the family of a terrorist to explore the lives of his children, and the impact of his murderous teachings on their young lives? “All the difficulties built stronger character,” he says. “What happened to them?” he wonders aloud. If you have relationships or contacts with those who could be helpful in securing the necessary visa, please contact me. We don’t know. And the city’s underground, where artists gathered but couldn’t escape. taz: Herr Derki, haben Sie am 14. But start it did, and he found himself with a camera at the center of a nonfiction story as gripping as the movies he grew up watching. In order to gain access to his subjects, Derki pretended to support the Jihadist cause. They are astonishing works of cinema.“Of Fathers and Sons” is now playing in select theaters from Kino Lorber. He seems to be picturing someone not unlike himself. Né à Damas, dans une famille kurde syrienne, Talal Derki, 36 ans, a fait des études de cinéma à Athènes au début des années 2000. In fact, while filming To gain access to Idlib province, Derki learned to mimic the vocabulary used by new recruits to the jihadi movement — describing how he’d seen “the light of jihad.” And though it felt like a nightmare to live among men espousing radicalism and violence, he was driven by a responsibility to document the conflict. We want Talal here with us.And as a tribute to Talal, I hope you will watch his films. Talal Derki estudió dirección de cine, en Atenas, en el Instituto Superior de Arte y Televisión Cinematográficos de Stavrako, graduándose en 2003.Trabajó como asistente de dirección para producciones cinematográficas y fue director de diferentes programas de TV y películas de televisión árabes entre 2009 y 2012. Copyright © 2020 Penske Business Media, LLC. Derzeit lebt Derki in Istanbul „Niemand wird den Zivilisten helfen“ Das haben die internationalen Player geschafft: In nur drei Jahren ist die syrische Gesellschaft fast so zerstört wie Afghanistan, sagt Regisseur Talal Derki. Derki has already missed the Independent Spirit Awards luncheon, and he will be unable to attend the prestigious Cinema Eye Honors ceremony tonight, where “Of Fathers and Sons” is nominated in three categories, including Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking and Outstanding Achievement in Direction.“Of Fathers and Sons” follows Derki, a native Syrian, as he embeds himself in a radical Islamist family and documents the daily lives of its members, particularly the two children. The 2019 Oscar nominations will be announced Tuesday, January 22.Interviews with leading film and TV creators about their process and craft.Get The Latest IndieWire Alerts And Newsletters Delivered Directly To Your Inbox He also happens to be a person of extraordinary depth, sensitivity, and soul. He was meant to be in the United States right now, but instead he is stuck in Germany as the visa he needs to enter the United States, since he is still a Syrian citizen, has not been granted to him. His grandfather came to Syria from Turkey after the first Kurdish uprising in the 1920s. Now, though small in number, Syrian filmmakers remind him of postwar Italian ones, when famed directors like Vittorio De Sica and Federico Fellini emerged from the shadow of Mussolini and World War II. He made a couple of short films and says he probably would never have progressed to feature-length documentaries had the war not started (his passion then, and now, is fiction). Weil er sich als Dschihadist ausgab, konnte er den Alltag einer Familie begleiten. As “Of Fathers and Sons” executive producer Dan Cogan explains in a statement below exclusive to IndieWire, the U.S. government has denied Derki the visa he needs to come to America and participate in Oscar season events. Could it possibly be that the current American administration is slow-boating any visas for citizens of the largely Muslim country of Syria? It’s about Raqqa, the Islamic State’s former capital, in 2015. Earlier: Talal Derki had a remarkable 2018 thanks to his documentary “Of Fathers and Sons,” which started the year by winning a Sundance Grand Jury Prize and ended it … He’s sitting on a couch in a rented condo in Park City, Utah, at this year’s Since the start of Syria’s civil war in 2010, many of the country’s leading filmmakers have turned their cameras to a simple goal: documenting the yearslong conflict. Their efforts have earned them critical praise and awards.
He should be in New York this very night, where he is supposed to be a presenter at the Cinema Eye Honors, and where he is also a nominee, but he will not be there because he is still waiting to receive a visa that he was told as recently as last month should not be a problem.Why is his visa not being granted? Et voilà qu’arrive Talal Derki.