Documentary

Investigating Paradise

Name: Investigating Paradise
Director: Merzak Allouache
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2018-01-17
Duration: 135 min
Rating: 6.2
Cast: Salima Abada, Younès Sabeur Chérif, Aida Guechoud

January 17, 2018

2h 15m

TMDB6.2· 3

Young Algerian journalist Nedjma is investigating Islamic accounts of paradise. She is particularly interested in the descriptions used by Salafi preachers to recruit young Algerian men as jihadists. She and her colleague Mustapha find a number of disturbing, richly embellished video sermons and decide to explore the phenomenon in more detail.