Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi was critical of his beloved Saudi Arabia and of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s policies. On October 2, 2018, Khashoggi entered the Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul and never came out. His fiancée and dissidents around the world are left to piece together clues to his brutal murder—and in their dogged quest for truth, they expose a global cover-up perpetrated by the very country he loved.
With exclusive access to the Turkish government’s evidence; to Khashoggi’s fiancée, Hatice Cengiz; and to Khashoggi’s close friend and fellow Saudi insurgent, Omar Abdulaziz, Academy Award–winning filmmaker Bryan Fogel unearths hidden secrets in this real-life international thriller that will continue to rock the world long after the headlines have faded away.
Chillingly powerful and heartbreakingly candid, THE DISSIDENT is an intimate portrait of a man who sacrificed everything for freedom of speech. With this cogent film, Fogel joins a cadre of dreamers across the globe who refuse to squelch the life’s work of an intrepid rebel, who, even after death, is defying those who sought to silence him forever.
- Director: Bryan Fogel
- Country: USA
- Genre: Crime | Documentary | Thriller
- Year: 2020
- Run Time: 01:57:15
- imdb Score: 8.1/10 (2,663 votes)
- Language: Arabic, Turkish, English
- Rating: PG-13
- Cast: Jamal Khashoggi
Jake Coyle - ASSOCIATE PRESS
"This is a documentary both tragic and poignant, not to mention maddening in that only a few underlings, and not the perpetrators, will pay for the crime committed in Istanbul. The evidence is all here for the world to see."
Todd McCarthy - THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
"THE DISSIDENT is riveting, but it’s also a moving testament to a man whose courage burned too brightly to die with him."
Owen Gleiberman - VARIETY
Sundance Film Festival 2020
Stockholm Int'l Film Festival 2020
SCAD Savannah Film Festival 2020
Middleburg Film Festival 2020
Aspen Film Festival 2020
Zurich Film Festival 2020