Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi was critical of his beloved Saudi Arabia and of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s repressive policies. On October 2, 2018, Khashoggi entered the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, simply seeking marriage-related documents, and never came out. The world subsequently learned that he had been brutally murdered that very same day.
With exclusive access to the Turkish government’s evidence, to Khashoggi’s fiancée, Hatice Cengiz, and to Khashoggi’s close friend and fellow Saudi dissident Omar Abdulaziz, Academy Award winning filmmaker Bryan Fogel (Icarus) unearths hidden secrets in this real-life international thriller whose timeliness and impact continues more than two years after Jamal Khashoggi’s death. Immensely powerful and heartbreakingly candid, The Dissident is an intimate portrait of a man who sacrificed everything for freedom of speech.
March Split/Screen films are curated by MNFF. We are unable to offer VTIFF members free passes or discounts for this month. If you will be viewing this month’s film through one of your apps, please remember that you need to use the Middlebury Roku, Firestick and Apple TV apps, not the VTIFF ones.
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