Talal had a remarkable 2018 thanks to OF FATHERS AND SONS which started the year by winning the World Cinema Documentary Grand Jury Prize at Sundance and then landed an Academy Award nomination in the highly competitive Best Documentary Oscar category. In between, Derki picked up nominations from the European Film Awards and the Independent Spirit Awards in recognition of an extraordinary film that infiltrates a jihadist family and a terrorist training camp under the guise of being a photojournalist sympathetic towards Daesh.