MY DAUGHTER THE TERRORIST
What drives anyone to blow themselves up for a cause? In this intimate and personal portrait we join two young catholic elite women soldiers trained for the ultimate mission.
Dharsika and Puhalchudar belong to the Black Tigers, and are preparing for their last mission: strapping an American-made Claymore mine to their bodies, powerful enough to blow themselves and everything within 100 feet to pieces. The girls are close friends. They have been eating, sleeping, training and fighting side by side for seven years. They can survive for weeks in the jungle without supplies and they don’t know exactly how many enemies they’ve killed in ordinary battle.
For the first time ever the Tamil Tigers have allowed a foreign film team to dig deep into the lives and faiths of two Black Tigers.
The Black Tigers were the first ones to use suicide bombers. The PLO, the Al-Quaida and the Chechnyans took their cues from the Tamil’s tactics.
My Daughter the Terrorist looks at what life is like inside a guerrilla organization, and the way the world appears in the eyes of the alleged terrorist. It’s a film about unthinkable terrorist acts – and about getting to know and to some extent understand people who are firmly committed to doing the unthinkable.
“An extremely interesting and well-made film.”
Dox Magazine #72, 2007
- Release year:
- 2007
- Director:
- Beate Arnestad & Morten Daae
- Supported by:
- The Freedom of Expression Foundation, The Norwegian Film Fund
- Running length:
- 52 / 58 minutes
- Production company:
- Snitt Film Production for TV2 Danmark
- Prizes:
- Best International Feature-length Documentary at the Message to Man International Film Festival
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