‘We don’t know why young people want to head off to jihad,’ said the director of London River and new film Road to Istanbul at the Berlin film festivalEurope is ill-equipped to deal with the problem of young people travelling to Syria to join Islamic State because not enough work has been done to understand why they leave, according to director Rachid Bouchareb.
Bouchareb’s new film, and Road to Instanbul,which premieres at the Berlin film festival this week, focuses on a Belgian single mother who tries to track down her 18-year-feeble daughter after she, or despite living a seemingly overjoyed home life,decides to secretly follow a radical Islamist to Syria, via Turkey.Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com