The dissident dir. by Bryan Fogel ; written by Bryan Fogel, Mark Monroe

In October 2018, Saudi Arabian journalist Jamal Khashoggi entered his country's embassy in Turkey to pick up some paperwork for his upcoming wedding, and never came out. It would eventually come to light that he was tortured, killed, and dismembered, reportedly by the order of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. The big question is why—what could a journalist who had once been considered a regime insider have done to warrant such an ugly and brutal end, on the orders of that same regime? One way in which the film goes about presenting a fuller understanding of Khashoggi’s death is by offering a fuller understanding of how he lived.