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NICASIO, Calif. — The killing of Jamal Khashoggi in 2018 was a historic event, a brutal wake-up call about the fragility of free speech under a supposedly reformist Saudi Arabian leader.
Now it’s poised to turn into something else: a cinematic event.
On Friday, the Oscar-winning director Bryan Fogel, who previously investigated Russian doping with the film “Icarus,” will unveil a documentary about Khashoggi, called “
The Dissident,” at the Sundance Film Festival.
Layered with news, drama and moral excoriation, the film not only examines one of the most shocking events in modern Middle East-U.S. relations, but it is also likely to shine an uncomfortable spotlight on both Saudi Arabia and the profit-minded American companies that do business with it.
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