Imad's Childhood

Can a child recover from spending half his life in ISIS captivity?

Imad's Childhood After two and a half years in ISIS captivity, Imad and his family are released into a displaced persons' camp. Not yet five, Imad has already spent over half his life enduring terror, abuse and "training" designed to make him heartless. Speaking only Arabic, he cannot communicate with his family and the only means of expression at his disposal is violence. This poignant film follows his hesitant steps on the hard road to recovery.


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(2021) on IMDb

The Producers


Zahavi Sanjavi - Writer and Director

Zahavi Sanjavi was born in 1967 in Arbil, Kurdistan, Iraq. Since 1990 he has lived in Sweden. Zahavi pursued his studies in the field of scriptwriting and filmmaking at All-Russian State University of Cinematography in Moscow. Within nine years he worked for TV in Iraqi Kurdistan. Zahavi works in Sweden on documentary and feature films as a director, scriptwriter and producer.

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