Among the Believers

Tuesday, March 22, 2016

Q&A with directors Hemal Trivedi and Mohammed Ali Naqvi & writer/producer Jonathan Goodman Levitt!

Closing night – Stranger Than Fiction: Winter 2016

Firebrand cleric Abdul Aziz Ghazi, an ISIS supporter and Taliban ally, is waging jihad against the Pakistani government with the aim of imposing Shariah law. His primary weapon is his expanding network of Islamic seminaries for children as young as four. AMONG THE BELIEVERS follows Aziz’s personal quest, and charts the lives of two of his teenage students who are pawns in his ideological war.

• Year 2015
• Running Time 84 minutes
• Director Hemal Trivedi & Mohammed Ali Naqvi

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