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    THE MATCHMAKER

    Benedetta Argentieri

    Italy, 2022 | 90 min | Doc.
    Synopsis
    Tooba Gondal is one of the most infamous British jihadists. When she was only 20 years old she left London to join the Islamic State and gained popularity worldwide as “the ISIS matchmaker” after she recruited a dozen of Western women to marry ISIS fighters. Between 2014 and 2017 she actively engaged in propaganda on social networks. After disappearing for two years, Tooba was filmed in 2019 by director and freelance reporter Benedetta Argentieri, in Raqqa, Syria. Is she really the nice, intelligent and submissive girl we see on camera? Or is she a violent extremist? An interesting reflection on the Islamic holy war seen from the point of view of the women who are part of the caliphate, fighters and executioners themselves.
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    Benedetta Argentieri
    Benedetta Argentieri, with the collaboration Maria Edgarda Marcucci
    Matteo Mossi, Serena Pighi
    Gian Luigi Carlone
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