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201172 minPGdocumentary

The Guerilla Son

201172 minPGdocumentary

Five years old and alone, Zanyar Adami boards a plane to Sweden while his mother waits at the Baghdad airport and his father is absent.

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Five years old and alone, Zanyar Adami boards a plane to Sweden while his mother waits at the Baghdad airport and his father is absent.

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Zanyar Adamidirector

David Herdiesdirector

Zanyar Adamiwriter

David Herdieswriter

Zanyar Adamicast

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Zanyar Adami sits in his kitchen in a suburb of Stockholm, facing his father, Taher. Zanyar is about to become a father himself. He reflects on a childhood memory from Baghdad, where he left at the age of five without his father. Twenty-three years later, he confronts Taher with a question that has haunted him: Why did he leave Zanyar during a time of war and send him to Sweden alone? The film captures this emotional exchange between father and son.

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