Looking to investigate recruitment techniques of ISIS to lure women into Syria, a journalist creates a Facebook profile of a Muslim convert. When an ISIS recruiter contacts her online character, she experiences the process first hand.
Direction
Bekmambetov's screenlife mastery—entire film on screens
Acting
Latif's recruiter: charming, terrifying, uncomfortably real
Editing
Cursor movements become suspense choreography
Director
Timur Bekmambetov
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on Anna Erelle's memoir 'In the Skin of a Jihadist'; Bekmambetov pioneered the 'screenlife' format with 'Unfriended'.
The film mirrors how ISIS actually recruited—romantic grooming, shared playlists, late-night intimacy built before ideology.
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