: The documentary features intimate interviews with Khashoggi’s fiancée, Hatice Cengiz, who waited outside the consulate for him to emerge, as well as fellow dissidents like Omar Abdulaziz, a young Saudi exile living in Canada. Critical Reception and Impact
The Dissident: 'Sawing' political activism by media corporation? The Dissident (2020)
is a powerful and unsettling documentary thriller directed by Academy Award-winner Bryan Fogel (known for Icarus ). The film investigates the 2018 assassination of Jamal Khashoggi, a Saudi Arabian journalist and Washington Post columnist who was murdered inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. Plot Summary and Themes The Dissident (2020)
The film goes beyond a simple retelling of the crime, functioning as a real-life thriller that exposes a global web of deceit. It explores: The Dissident (2020)