RAWAN16/07
2018 · 13m · España
Directed by Miguel Parra
Tones: contemplative, tense
Twenty-four hours before leaving on a one-way journey to join the jihad, a young woman is shaken by a series of coincidences that make her doubt the destiny she had imagined for herself.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
Everyone expects this to be a radicalization thriller, and instead Parra builds a portrait of doubt through mundane coincidence—it's almost too subtle, which is exactly why it works as subversion.
The film sits precisely in the lineage of intimate European character studies that use constraint and repetition to excavate moral paralysis; the 24-hour structure and the measured pacing show a director in full command of how form generates meaning.
The decision to let doubt creep in through accident rather than argument—a missed call, a chance encounter—is what transforms this from issue-drama into something genuinely unsettling, and you feel it in every underplayed reaction.