
Jamal Khashoggi: Murder in the Saudi Consulate
On October 2, 2018, Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi walked into the Saudi consulate in Istanbul to collect paperwork for his upcoming wedding and never walked out. This film reconstructs the timeline of his killing through interviews, leaked audio details, Turkish surveillance footage, and reporting on the fifteen-man team Saudi Arabia flew in that day. It traces Khashoggi's path from Saudi insider and government adviser to exiled critic writing columns in Washington that angered Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, and follows the diplomatic fallout as Turkish officials, journalists, and Khashoggi's fiancée Hatice Cengiz pieced together what happened inside the building. The documentary lays out the competing accounts Riyadh gave in the weeks after the killing, each one revised as evidence surfaced, and weighs the intelligence assessments pointing toward the crown prince's involvement. It ends with the case still unresolved on the international stage, the body never found, and the story treated as a test of how governments respond when a journalist is murdered by an allied state.