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Released
2022 · FILM

Terrible Children

Rebellion Takes Many Forms

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Runtime
57 min
Documentary

Synopsis

The film poses the universal question—must we betray our family to grow up? The filmmaker’s Indian father gives her a letter, which he left unopened for 20 years. She pieces together her father’s history of trauma and renewal—of family violence, boyhood in a right-wing paramilitary group, Muslim-Hindu violence during Partition, and family banishment for marrying a Danish woman. Told through personal narrative, reimagined history, and chronicles of racial nationalism, the film reveals the rich and complex interior lives of boys fighting to become men.

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Principal cast & crew: 5

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Edited by Shanti ThakurShot by Benjamin WolfScored by Quentin Chiappetta

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