Original name: A Noiva
English name: The Bride
Year: 2022
Run time: 81 Min
Language: Portuguese
Type (Colour/ Black & white): Colour
Country: Portugal
Director: Sérgio Tréfaut
Producers: Sérgio Tréfaut
cast: Joana Bernardo, Lola Dueñas, Hugo Bentes, Hossein Hassan
Screenplay: Sérgio Tréfaut
Cinematographer: João Ribeiro
Editor: Pedro Filipe Marques
Sound Designer: Marcelo Lessa
Production Company: Faux Unipessoal Lda
World Sales: Alfama Films
Sérgio Tréfaut was born in São Paulo, Brazil. After completing a Master’s degree in Philosophy at the Sorbonne (Paris), he started to work in Lisbon as a journalist. His career evolved from there to his eventually becoming a producer and a prize-winning director of documentaries and feature films screened in more than 50 countries. Sérgio Tréfaut has been on the board of the EDN (European Documentary Network) and co-founded and co-directed Doclisboa IFF.
A European teenager ran away from home to marry a Daesh fighter. She became a bride of the Jihad. Three years later, her life has dramatically changed. She is living in an Iraqi prison camp. Now she has two children to take care of and is pregnant again. She is a 20 years old widow and soon will be put on trial in the Iraqi courts. What have the experience of war and brainwashing done to her?