Length:
101 mins

Certificate:
15

Production companies:
Film4
Wild Bunch
Optimum Releasing
Warp Films

Distributors:
Hopscotch Films (2010) (Australia)
Optimum Releasing (2010) (UK)
Paradiso Entertainment (2010)
Future Film (2010) (Finland)
Midget Entertainment (2010)(Denmark
Teleview International (2010) Lebanon)

Other Companies:
Film4 - funding
SDD Global Solutions - legal services
SmithDehn - legal services
Vehicles in Vision - action vehicles supplier

Release date:
7 May 2010 (UK), 23 Jan 2010 (USA)

Genre:
comedy, drama

Plot:
Four Lions tells the story of a group of British jihadists who push their abstract dreams of glory to the breaking point. As the wheels fly off, and their competing ideologies clash, what emerges is an emotionally engaging (and entirely plausible) farce. In a storm of razor-sharp verbal jousting and large-scale set pieces, Four Lions is a comic tour de force; it shows that-while terrorism is about ideology-it can also be about idiots.

In a British city, four men have a secret plan. Omar is disillusioned about the treatment of Muslims around the world and is determined to become a soldier. This is the most exciting idea Waj has ever heard. Better still it's a no brainer because Omar does his thinking for him. Opposed to Omar and everyone else on earth is the white Islamic convert Barry. He'd realize he joined the cell to channel his nihilism - If he had half the self knowledge of a duck. Faisal is the odd man out. He can make a bomb - but he can't blow himself up just now coz his sick dad has "started eating newspaper". Instead he's training crows to fly bombs through windows. This is what Omar has to deal with. They must strike a decisive blow on their own turf but can any of them strike a match without punching himself in the face?

Awards nominated for: Grand Jury Prize, 2010