Among the Believers

Name: Among the Believers
Genre: Biography, War, Documentary, News
Released: September 30, 2016
Duration: 84 min
Rating: 74

2016

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| Release Date: September 30, 2016 | Not Rated

Summary: Charismatic cleric Abdul Aziz Ghazi, an ISIS supporter and Taliban ally, is waging jihad against the Pakistani state. His dream is to impose a strict version of Shariah law throughout the country, as a model for the world. A flashpoint in Aziz's holy war took place in 2007, when the government leveled his flagship mosque to the ground,Charismatic cleric Abdul Aziz Ghazi, an ISIS supporter and Taliban ally, is waging jihad against the Pakistani state. His dream is to impose a strict version of Shariah law throughout the country, as a model for the world. A flashpoint in Aziz's holy war took place in 2007, when the government leveled his flagship mosque to the ground, killing his mother, brother, only son and 150 students. With unprecedented access, Among the Believers follows Aziz on his very personal quest to create an Islamic utopia, during the bloodiest period in Pakistan's modern history.… Expand

Director: Hemal Trivedi and Mohammed Naqvi

Genre(s): Biography, War, Documentary, News

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 84 min

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IndieWire Casey Cipriani

Sep 29, 2016

With ideological clashes that span countries, Among the Believers offers an intricate and frightening look into the microcosm of our current world’s biggest international issue. Read full review

Time Out London Hayley Joyes

Sep 29, 2016

The use of education as a tool to enforce an ardent religious ideology upon children is what’s most distressing here (remember Malala Yousafzai?), and the filmmakers back up their investigations with testimony from key speakers in the Pakistani academic communities and a young girl who ran away from her local madrassa training programme. Read full review

Diana Clarke

Sep 29, 2016

Each person’s actions here are not theirs alone, but part of a network of complicated needs and conflicting ideologies that make up contemporary Pakistan. Some of the stories are difficult to hear, but they must be listened to. Read full review

Robert Abele

Oct 6, 2016

There’s little that’s not dispiriting about Among the Believers and its measured, direct entrée into a closed world of hopeless boys and girls memorizing the Koran, but forbidden from learning its meanings. Read full review

Ken Jaworowski

Sep 29, 2016

The directors let their subjects speak without overtly passing judgment. Read full review

John DeFore

Sep 29, 2016

Among the Believers is a step toward understanding how such a man can be entrusted with such a large percentage of a nation's children. Read full review

The Playlist Nikola Grozdanovic

Sep 29, 2016

By pointing their camera at the Red Mosque, Trivedi and Naqvi add surprisingly little to the conversation. Read full review

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