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  • 2016
  • Yleisradio (YLE)
  • 1 h 24 m
  • 2016
  • Yleisradio (YLE)
  • 1 h 24 m

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, k...

Directed By: Mohammed Ali Naqvi

  • 2016
  • Yleisradio (YLE)
  • 1 h 24 m
  • 2016
  • Yleisradio (YLE)
  • 1 h 24 m

Among the Believers

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 10 Critic Reviews
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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, k...

Directed By: Mohammed Ali Naqvi

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 10 Critic Reviews
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100
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.
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80
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.
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80
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.
By Diana Clarke FULL REVIEW
80
Sep 29, 2016
There’s enough cinema in Among the Believers to set it a step above solid respectable investigation.
By David D'Arcy FULL REVIEW
70
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.
By John DeFore FULL REVIEW
60
Dec 8, 2015
What I like about Among the Believers, a portrait of radical Islam in Pakistan, is how the first two-thirds of the movie strives to remain as balanced as possible.
By Jordan Hoffman FULL REVIEW
50
Sep 29, 2016
By pointing their camera at the Red Mosque, Trivedi and Naqvi add surprisingly little to the conversation.
By Nikola Grozdanovic FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Changeworx, Manjusha Films
Release Date Sep 30, 2016
Duration 1 h 24 m
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Tagline Democracy has failed. Dictators have failed. Now there is a vacuum. Someone has to fill it.
Website http://www.amongthebelieversfilm.com/
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Awards

Accolade Competition
• 5 Wins & 5 Nominations
Hollywood International Independent Documentary Awards
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
Documentary Edge Festival
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations

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