PRODUCTION INFO
Title: Children of the Enemy
Format: Documentary
Language: Swedish, English, Spanish
Duration: 97 minutes
Release: 2021
CREW
Director: Gorki Glaser-Müller
Screenwriter: Gorki Glaser-Müller
DOP: Gorki Glaser-Müller
Editors: Åsa Mossberg, Kasper Leick, Søren B. Ebbe, Erika Gonzales
Producers: Erika Malmgren / Cinenic Film, Kristofer Henell / One Night Picture
Co-producers: Charlotte Gry Madsen / SVT, Peter Possne / Film i Väst, Gorki Glaser-Müller / GGM Film, Signe Leick Jensen & Morten Kaufmann / Toolbox Film
INTERNATIONAL SALES
Cinephil
NATIONAL DISTRIBUTION
TriArt Film
FESTIVALS AND AWARDS
2022 Swedish Guldbagge Awards – Winner of Best Music, Nominee Best Documentary, Best
Director2022 Camille Awards – Nominee Best Score for a Feature Documentary
2022 AJB Doc Film Festival, The Balkans – Winner of AJB Doc Main Award and AJB Doc Audience Award
2022 Chagrin Documentary Film Festival, USA – Winner John A. Hellman International Documentary Award
2022 FIPADOC, France
2022 International Film Festival and Forum for Human Rights, France
2022 Krakow Film Festival Polen – Winner FIPRESCI Prize
2022 RamDam Film Festival, Belgium
2022 Cleveland International Film Festival, USA
2022 Singapore International Film Festival, Singapore
2021 DOCNYC, USA
2021 Solidarity – Tel Aviv Human Rights Film Festival, Israel
2021 Bergen International Film Festival, Norway
2021 Raindance, UK
2021 PRIX EUROPA – Nominated for Best Documentary Film
2021 Biografilm, Italy
2021 Dokufest, Kosovo
2021 Festival des Libertés, Belgium -Winner Prix FIDH
2021 CPH:DOX, Denmark – Nominee CPH:DOX Award
SYNOPSIS
Patricio Galvez’ daughter married one of Sweden’s most notorious ISIS terrorists. In 2014, they join the fight for a caliphate in Syria. Both are killed in its collapse in 2019, but their seven young children survive and are interned in the infamous al-Hol prison camp as “Children of the Enemy”. When the Swedish authorities show little interest in freeing them, Patricio starts a one-man campaign to save their lives and bring them home.