The Believers Are But Brothers is an urgent political riff on young men and the internet adapted for television from an award-winning play. Artist, writer and activist Alipoor and director Irshad Ashraf step into the dark, blurry online world of fantasists and extremists to tell four fictional stories - of an ISIS recruiter, two British recruits and an alt-right ‘white boy’ from California.
Javaad Alipoor
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The Believers Are But Brothers is an urgent political riff on young men and the internet adapted for television from an award-winning play. Artist, writer and activist Alipoor and director Irshad Ashraf step into the dark, blurry online world of fantasists and extremists to tell four fictional stories - of an ISIS recruiter, two British recruits and an alt-right ‘white boy’ from California.
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