PROPHETS
synopsis
Prophets is the story of an encounter and a confrontation between Sara, an independent Italian journalist who was kidnapped in Syria by ISIS while she was working on a war news report in 2015, and Nur, the young foreign fighter, wife to a soldier of the Caliphate who holds Sara in custody in a building located in the middle of a training camp. Nur’s strong will to proselytize, together with the strict orders of the leader of the camp, will unfold into an attempt to convert Sara and make her join Islamic extremism.
| international title: | Prophets |
| original title: | Profeti |
| country: | Italy |
| sales agent: | True Colours |
| year: | 2023 |
| genre: | fiction |
| directed by: | Alessio Cremonini |
| film run: | 106' |
| release date: | IT 26/01/2023 |
| screenplay: | Alessio Cremonini |
| cast: | Jasmine Trinca, Isabella Nefar, Ziad Bakri, Omar El-Saeidi, Deniz Özdoğan, Donato Demita, Mehdi Meskar, Marco Horanieh, Orwa Kulthoum |
| cinematography by: | Ramiro Civita |
| film editing: | Marco Spoletini |
| art director: | Sabrina Balestra |
| costumes designer: | Angela Tomasicchio |
| producer: | Olivia Musini, Luigi Musini, Mattia Guerra, Stefano Massenzi, Andrea Occhipinti |
| production: | Cinemaundici, Lucky Red, RAI Cinema, Sky Studios Italia |
| backing: | Direzione generale Cinema e audiovisivo del Ministero della Cultura DGCA - MIC |
| distributor: | Lucky Red |
