Gods of Molenbeek (2019)

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.

Released Aug. 9, 2019 73 min 13+

Genres: Documentary

Keywords: tmdb.religion, tmdb.terrorism, tmdb.childhood, mdblist.has-trailer, mdblist.two-actors, imdb.allah, imdb.friend + 11 more, imdb.religious-differences, imdb.playing, imdb.child, imdb.god, imdb.christianity, imdb.religion, imdb.islam, imdb.islamism, imdb.terrorism, imdb.friendship, imdb.cultural-difference