Jihadists(2019)

Name: Jihadists
Director: François Margolin
Genre: Documentary, War
Released: Jan 25, 2019
Cast: Oumar Ould Hamaha, François Margolin

Cinema Libre Studio

1h 15m
- Documentary
- War

Release Date: Jan 25, 2019

Filmmakers expose the radical ideologists indoctrinating thousands of jihadists.

Release Details

Original Release | Jan 25, 2019 | Limited

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2025-02-02T03:58:26.091Z

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Opening Weekend US & Canada:
$824
Total US & Canada:
$2,104
Total Worldwide:
$2,104

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Director & Top Cast

François Margolin
Director

Lemine Ould M. Salem
Director

Oumar Ould Hamaha
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François Margolin
Self

Other Details

Country of Origin: France, Mali, Mauritania, Tunisia

Language: French,Arabic,Bambara,English

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François Margolin and Lemine Ould Salem expose the radical ideologists indoctrinating thousands of jihadists. They venture to Gao and Timbuktu in Mali to meet Omar Old Hamaha, head of jihadist group Ansar al-Sharia; to Mauritania, to meet a young imam from Nouakchott; and finally to Tunisia. The raw documentary also displays ISIS's propaganda images, bereft of commentary or voiceover; the creators have taken the risk of confronting the audience with unedited Salafist rhetoric, for a greater understanding of what we are up against. Banned in France (released as 'Salafistes'), JIHADISTS goes deep into the heart of the Salafi movement, to reveal the inner workings of extremist Islam. A pair of Western filmmakers were granted unparalleled access to fundamentalist clerics of Sunni Islam who proselytize for a "purer" form of Islam--including jihad of the sword--in Mali, Tunisia, Iraq and Afghanistan. Their theoretical interpretations are juxtaposed against images and footage from recruitment videos to show the hardline application of sharia law. Without experts contextualizing these events, the film, which inspired the Oscar-nominated feature, "Timbuktu", paints a stark portrait of everyday life under jihadi rule. Co-directed by Lemine Ould Salem of Mauritania and France's François Margolin, an earlier version of the film was released in the days following the Charlie Hebdo attack in Paris where it was mistakenly interpreted as an empathetic portrayal of jihadism.