Brotherhood (2018)

Original title

إخوان

Directed by

Meryam Joobeur

Genre

drama film

Country

Canada

Runtime

25 min

Rated

14A

Rating

6.6 of 10 from 25 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A Tunisian father becomes suspicious when his eldest son returns home after a year away with a new wife who wears a full niqab. The father fears his son has joined the Islamic State, and this creates conflict within the family.

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What happens

Brotherhood (Ikhwène) is a short film, directed by Meryam Joobeur and released in September 2018. The film explores the tensions within a Tunisian family when the biggest son, who has been away for one year, returns home with a new Syrian wife who wears the full niqab, igniting his father's suspicions that his son has been working for the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. The film's title was chosen to reflect both the familial connotations of the word "brotherhood" and its use in the name of the controversial Islamist organization Muslim Brotherhood. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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