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    Powerful new Khashoggi film hits its mark … but will audiences get to see it?

    Documentary exposé about the murdered journalist is proving tough to sell – not least because distributors may be wary of upsetting the Saudis
    by Vanessa Thorpe Feb 22, 2020 2 minutes
    Bryan Fogel, director of The Dissident, and Jamal Khashoggi’s fiancee, Hatice Cengiz, at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival. Photograph: Taylor Jewell/Invision/AP

    At the close of the US festival premiere of a documentary about the killing of the Saudi Arabian journalist Jamal Khashoggi, the audience rose to its feet, cheering.

    The Dissident’s tragic subject matter had already created interest, as had the glittering record of its director, Bryan Fogel. Critics were full of praise, with Variety calling it “an eye-opening thriller brew of corruption, cover-up and real-world courage”.

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