Gods of Molenbeek (movie)
Aatos ja Amine- User score: 7.2
- Production country: Belgium, Germany, Finland
- Producer: Reetta Huhtanen
- Production companies: Zone2 Pictures
- Genre: Documentary
- Release date: 8/9/2019
- Run time: 73 min.
Movie description
The district of Molenbeek-Saint-Jean in Brussels has become world-famous as a center of jihadism, but for six-year-old Aatos and his friend Amine, it is a familiar home. Here, they listen to spiders, discover black holes, and fight about what is going to steer a flying carpet. Together they search for the answers to life's big questions. But the brutality of the adult world makes itself known when terrorists detonate a bomb in the neighborhood. Aaatos envies Amine's Muslim faith and looks for his own gods, although his classmate Flo questions him; she is strongly convinced that anyone who believes in God is completely nuts. Gods of Molenbeek is a wonderful portrayal of childhood friendship, inquiry and the creation of meaning in a chaotic time.
