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Reetta Huhtanen

Aatos ja Amine
Gods of Molenbeek

Logline
The Molenbeek district in Brussels is believed to be the jihadi capital, since exposed by the media as home to the Paris terrorist attackers. It is also home to Aatos from Finland and Amine from Morocco, two 6-year-old boys whose lives have been reshaped for good due to the marginalization and intense policing of the district. Through their vivid imagination, the two best friends travel to places far away from the hatred of their reality. A documentary about the ties that truly bind.
Talent
Reetta Huhtanen
Role of participant
Director, Screenwriter
Director
Reetta Huhtanen
Producer
Hannu-Pekka Vitikainen, Hanne Phlypo, Alex Tondowski
Screenwriter
Reetta Huhtanen
Status
finished
Year of production
2019
Running time
73 min
Genre
Documentary (Creative)
Countries of Production
Finland , Belgium , Germany
Production Companies
Zone2 Pictures, Clin d’oeil , Tondowski Films
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Festivals and Awards

- Hot Docs (Canada)
- Göteborg International Film Festival (Sweden)
- Visions du Réel (Switzerland)
- Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival (Greece)
- Krakow Film Festival (Poland)
- Shanghai International Film Festival (China)
- RIDM (Canada)
- EBS International Documentary Film Festival (South Korea)
- FIPADOC (France)
- DOXA Documentary Film Festival (Canada)
- Dok.Fest Münich (Germany)
- Docaviv (Israel)
- ZagrebDox (Croatia)
- Filmfestival Cologne, Germany
- Reykjavik International Film Festival (Iceland)
- Biografilm Festival (Italy)
- FEST New Directors/New Films Festival (Portugal)
- OsloPix (Norway)
- DocsMX (Mexico)
- One World International Film Festival (Czech Republic)
- Dokufest (Kosovo)
- MakeDox (Macedonia)
- DocPoint – Helsinki Documentary Film Festival (Finland)
- Docville (Belgium)
- Magnificent 7 Festival - European Feature Documentary Film Festival (Serbia)
- CineDoc-Tbilisi - Documentary film festival (Georgia )
- Verzio Film Festival ( Hungary)
- Ânûû-rû âboro International Film Festival (New Caledonia)
- Duhok International Film Festival (Iraq)
- Kasseler DokFest (Germany)
- Astra Film Festival (Romania)
- IFI Documentary Film Festival (Ireland)
- Nordic Film Days Lübeck (Germany)
- Millenium International Documentary Film Festival (Belgium)
- Busan Internationall Kids and Youth Film Festival (South Koraa)
- Baltic Sea Docs (Latvia)
- Docudays UA (Ukraine)
- Tampere International Film Festival (Finland)
- Panorama du Film Européen (Egypt)
- Zürich Human Rights Film Festival (Switzerland)
- DokuBaku (Azerbaijan)
- Midnight Sun Film Festival (Finland)
- Love&Anarchy, Helsinki International Film Festival (Finland)
- Sakhalin International Film Festival (Russia)
- Northern Lights Nordic Baltic Film festival (Belarus)
- Internationsl Human Rights Film Festival Nürnberg (Germany)
- Gimli International Film Festival (Canada)
- DocPoint Tallin (Estonia)
- Scandinavia House: New Nordic Cinema Festival (USA)
- Unabhängiges Filmfest Osnabrück (Germany)
- doxs! documentaries for children and youth festival (Germany)
- MOVE IT! Filmfestival Dresden (Germany)
- European Film Festival Cambodia (Cambodia)
- Filem'on Festival (Belgium)
- One World Brussels (Belgium)
- Festival Cinéma Méditerranéen de Bruxelles (Belgium)
- Salina DocFest (Italy)
- Take One Action Film Festival (UK)
- Festival Protesta (Spain)
- Arctic Open (Russia)
- Finn Filmnapok (Hungary)
- AMAL Arab Film Festival (France)
- Cph Jewish Filmfestival (Denmark)
- Peloponnisos International Documentary (Greece)
- Crocevia di Sguardi – FIERI (Italy)
- Salaam Filmfestival (Denmark)
- Rauma blue sea film festival (Finland)
- Arktisen upeeta (Finland)
- KinderDocs (Greece)
- Ilokuvafestivaali (Finland)
- Rokumentti (Finland)
- Oulu International Children and Youth film festival (Finland)
- Hangon elokuvajuhlat (Finland)
- 100% Manusia Film Festival (Indonesia)