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WHO’S IN IT?

Valene Kane (’71), Shazad Latif (The Man Who Knew Infinity), Christine Adams (The Unholy), Morgan Watkins (Wild Bill), Amir Rahimzadeh (Rosewater), Emma Cater (Loulou)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Timur Bekmambetov (Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter), director, writer, producer; Olga Kharina (Yolki 2), writer, producer; Brittany Poulton (Them That Follow), writer; Andrey Shugaev (Game of Truth), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

Amy (Kane), a British journalist, decides to go undercover as a recent Islam convert, so she can infiltrate the online propaganda channels of so-called Islamic State, and expose their recruiters for a story. However, when she begins talking with one such recruiter named Bilel (Latif), Amy begins to be drawn into his methods and finds herself pushing the limits of her professional journalism…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

After testing the waters with films like Unfriended and Searching, director and producer Timur Bekmambetov now makes his own thriller as told from the perspective of computer screens, this time tackling the manipulative online tactics of extremist recruiters.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 6TH AUGUST 2021

WHERE CAN I FIND IT?

IN CINEMAS NATIONWIDE

 

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