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LOST WARRIOR

By Søren Steen JESPERSEN, Nasib FARAH

DR - DANISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION - as DISTR TV, World / BROAD

Documentary - Completed 2018

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Sheffield Doc/Fest 2018

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- Year of production
- 2018
- Genres
- Documentary
- Countries
- DENMARK, SOMALIA, UNITED KINGDOM
- Languages
- ENGLISH, ARABIC
- Duration
- 60 mn
- Director(s)
- Søren Steen JESPERSEN, Nasib FARAH
- Producer(s)
- Helle FABER, Made In COPENHAGEN (Made in Copenhagen for DR and IKON/EO in ass. with TVO, SVT, NRK, YLE, RUV, CT TV, RTVSLO)
- Synopsis
- A young man’s radicalized past casts shadows on the love he has finally found.
  Mohammed was just three years old when he was sent away from Somalia without his parents to a better life in England. As a teenager in London he got involved in crime and ended up in prison where he became radicalised. As a 19-year-old he was extradited to Somalia, where he landed straight in the arms of the terrorist organisation Al-Shabab. But when Mohammed finds out that Al-Shabab is not a liberation movement, but kills innocent people, he decides to flee. As a 23-year old he is living undercover in Mogadishu in the hopes of hiding from Al-Shabab. Here, he meets Fathi who was born in London, but sent to Somalia to be ‘reeducated’. They get married and when Fathi returns home to London she is pregnant with their child. ‘Lost Warrior’ follows the young couple’s attempt to be united as a family and to create a future for themselves and their son, Yassir. But Fathi and Mohammed are caught in the global politics of the day. Where to go? And what are his options now? They are also caught in their own culture, where the demands to maintain traditional and religious patterns is not at all consistent with being a young person in a modern world.

LOST WARRIOR

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