Bombs and Belgian Rap: the sounds of war

What is the line between the destruction of music and the detonation of bombs? Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah’s direct a part music, part narrative, and part coming-of-age story about ISIS. One where two brothers battle against radicalization, complicity, and gruesome violence in their struggle for justice. Older brother Kamal (Aboubakr Bensaihi) and younger brother Nassim (Amir El Arbi) grow up in Belgium, where protest is common and music is communal. Yet in IS and ISIS-controlled Syria, it is be radicalized or killed, and music is burned alongside its producers. In its place is the cacophony of bombs and gunshots, of the yells of parents and the cries of children.