Brides

In a film inspired by a real- life phenomenon, Brides follows two alienated teenage girls, who lured by social media posts promising freedom, run away from Britain to marry Jihadis and join the Islamic State of Syria.  It’s a complex, perceptive story of teenage friendship and disenchantment that also undoes many of our assumptions about those drawn to radical Islam activism. Newcomers Ebada Hassan and Safiyya Ingar are brilliant and heartbreaking as the teens confused by their emotions. When director Nadia Fall first read of the actual girls who, in 2015, left East London to join the so-called Brides of ISIL, she thought the media was too quick to dismiss them as terrorists.  Her touching, surprisingly-good humored film, though fictionalized, is an attempt to understand the girls’ motivation and temper the rush to judgment. UK 2025 (93 minutes)

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