Description:
Sabri
left to combat in Syria, leaving his family alone in the face of such
sudden and unbearable absence. Saliha, his mother, decided not to
keep silent. Her story intertwines that of other parents who unite
and fight against the youth indoctrination by the jihadist networks.
Sabri, Saliha’s son, abruptly left for Syria one day to make the
jihad. He was nineteen. Three months later, Saliha, her husband and
her children just as abruptly learnt of his death. Sabri left behind
an empty room and devastated relatives. Saliha, in the face of this
difficult mourning, decides to take action and mingles with other
parents, other mothers whose children left for Syria. Some of them
are dead, some others still live and somehow manage to stay in
contact with their families. Together they try to understand where
this sudden radicalization comes from and how their children could be
enlisted by the jihadist networks so rapidly. Today, the death of a
youth who dies in Syria, as is the case for Sabri, is not legally
recorded, the child is presumed absent, presumed dead. How can you
mourn in such conditions? From the Belgian parliament to the youths
whom she meets in schools, Saliha endeavours to make things happen by
witnessing the phenomenon of radicalization, the action of the
recruiters and the fragilities on which it is founded.
Biography: Jasna
Krajinovic joined the
Film Academy of Slovenia. In 1999 she graduated from INSAS in
Brussels and started working as a documentarist with the Dardenne
brothers. Her filmography includes: Saya
and Mira (Belgium,
2002), Two Sisters (58', Belgium, 2006), Damian's
Room (73', Belgium,
2008), and Summer with
Anton (61', Belgium,
2012)
