Overview
18-year-old Layla, a Dutch girl with Moroccan roots, joins a group of radical Muslims. She encounters a world that nurtures her ideas initally, but finally confronts her with an impossible choice.
Fun facts
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Nominations
Nominated for the International Submission to the Academy Awards (2018)
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Setting
Set in Amsterdam and Amman
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Music
Music by Can Erdoğan-Sus
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Cinematography
Cinematography by Danny Elsen
Details
- Director
- Writers
- Jan EilanderScreenplay
- Mijke de JongWriter
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- November 17, 2016
- Original language
- Arabic
- Countries
- Netherlands
Production
Cast
Nora el KoussourLayla
Ilias AddabAbdel
Hassan AkkouchZine
Yasemin ÇetinkayaOum Osama
Husam ChadatSheikh Abdullah Al Sabin- Karl FerlinGastheer vluchthuis antwerpen
Sachli GholamalizadSenna
Mohammed AzaayVader- Zouhair Ait AadiJihadi trainingscamp Belgium
Steef CuijpersAIVD agent- Miraj de GroofJihadi trainingscamp Belgium
- Kerem DemirciJihadi trainingscamp Belgium
- Juju HabipJihadi trainingscamp Belgium
- Batouz NassajJihadi trainingscamp Belgium
- Granit Nici
Esma Abouzahra- Suhaib Neshwan
- Ayisha Siddiqi
- Sajid Siddiqui
- Johan Siefken
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