Also Known as Jihadi
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Also Known as Jihadi follows the progress of a young man's journey from France to Syria, and back to France, where he is incarcerated for allegedly joining Daesh. Based on real events, and drawn from thousands of pages of judicial documents, the work employs the so-called landscape theory (fukeiron in Japanese). The character's paths to radicalism are rendered purely through a series of landscape shots filmed at the locations traversed by the subject: a biography determined not by what the subject did, but by what the subject saw, and one that questions how these landscapes reflect the social and political structures that are the backdrop for a journey of alienation and return.
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Eric Baudelaire Director · Claire Mathon Cinematographer Alan Guichaoua Cinematographer
Budget $300K · First release March 11, 2017 · Produced in France
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Budget
$300,000
Production
Poulet-Malassis
Production
Spectre Productions
Production
France
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Original language
French
Spoken on screen
French
Release dates
Belgium · March 11, 2017
Premiere
No release date listed for United States.
Argentina
November 18, 2017 · Mar del Plata Film Festival
Canada
November 15, 2017 · RIDM - Montreal International Documentary Festival
Czechia
October 25, 2017 · Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival
France
July 13, 2017 · FID Marseille
Mexico
March 2, 2018 · FICUNAM - Festival Internacional de Cine UNAM
Portugal
October 21, 2017 · Doclisboa
South Korea
May 5, 2018 · Jeonju International Film Festival
Taiwan
May 5, 2018 · Taiwan International Documentary Festival
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