The Dissident (2020)

Coming Out at January 8, 2021 in theaters

Documentary, Crime, Thriller

Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi was critical of his beloved Saudi Arabia and of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s policies. On October 2, 2018, Khashoggi entered the Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul and never came out. His fiancée and dissidents around the world are left to piece together clues to his brutal murder—and in their dogged quest for truth, they expose a global cover-up perpetrated by the very country he loved.

With exclusive access to the Turkish government’s evidence; to Khashoggi’s fiancée, Hatice Cengiz; and to Khashoggi’s close friend and fellow Saudi insurgent, Omar Abdulaziz, Academy Award–winning filmmaker Bryan Fogel unearths hidden secrets in this real-life international thriller that will continue to rock the world long after the headlines have faded away.

Chillingly powerful and heartbreakingly candid, The Dissident is an intimate portrait of a man who sacrificed everything for freedom of speech. With this cogent film, Fogel joins a cadre of dreamers across the globe who refuse to squelch the life’s work of an intrepid rebel, who, even after death, is defying those who sought to silence him forever.

Director: Bryan Fogel

Writers: Bryan Fogel, Mark Monroe

Stars: Omar Abdulaziz, Fahrettin Altun, John O. Brennan, Hatice Cengiz, Anthony J. Ferrante, Abdulhamit Gul, David Ignatius

►Cast

Omar Abdulaziz	►	Interviewee
Fahrettin Altun	►	Interviewee
John O. Brennan	►	Interviewee
Hatice Cengiz	►	Interviewee
Anthony J. Ferrante	►	Interviewee
Abdulhamit Gul	►	Interviewee
David Ignatius	►	Interviewee
Wadah Khanfar	►	Interviewee
Turan Kislacki	►	Interviewee
Fatih Oke	►	Interviewee
John Scott-Railton	►	Interviewee
Yasin Aktay	►	Interviewee
Sedar Atas	►	Interviewee
Agnès Callamard	►	Interviewee
Iyad El-Baghdadi	►	Interviewee
Irfan Fidan	►	Interviewee
Shane Harris	►	Interviewee
David Kaye	►	Interviewee
Recep Killic	►	Interviewee
Ayman Nour	►	Interviewee
Fred Ryan	►	Interviewee
Mohamed Soltan	►	Interviewee
Jeff Bezos	►
Jamal Khashoggi	►	(archive footage)
Mohammad Bin Salman	►	Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia (archive footage)
Donald Trump	►	President of the United States (archive footage)

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