"The phenomenon of Islamic State brides, which became a press preoccupation with the case of Shamima Begum who 10 years ago left the UK at the age of 15 to join IS and is still in a Syrian refugee camp is now filtering through to fictional representations; they are striving for a sympathetic, intimate way of intuiting the motives and feelings of young women who were hardly more than children when they were radicalised,"
"It is about two teenage girls: shy, thoughtful Doe (Ebada Hassan) and stroppy, lairy Muna (Safiyya Ingar), who make the fraught journey by plane from the UK to Turkey and then by bus to the Syrian border (with return tickets to allay suspicion) to marry IS jihadis. Perhaps the movie should actually be called Fiancees because the actual, brutal experience of being married in this situation is not what the movie wants to imagine,"
A new film follows two British teenage girls, Doe and Muna, as they travel by plane and bus from the UK to Turkey and toward the Syrian border with return tickets to allay suspicion, intending to marry IS jihadis. The narrative pairs their chaotic, sometimes darkly comic journey—uncertain welcomes at airports and mixed encounters with Turkish people—with flashbacks that reveal racist and sexist bullying and abuse. The film foregrounds the girls' innocence and friendship, especially their first meeting at an art class, and ends with a closing sequence that hints at brutal disenchantment and a harsh reality.
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