Compelling drama-documentary which tells the story of how, three years after the 7/7 attacks on London, a busy shopping centre in Bristol was the intended target of a devastating terrorist attack.
This film starring Adam Deacon (Adulthood, Kidulthood) sets out to answer this very question. It plays alongside sensitive interviews with Andrew's friends, classmates and his mother. Police testimony of the race to find the plotter is cut against unprecedented CCTV footage that tracks his every move through the city. Most sinister, however, is the film's portrayal of the world of online extremism which turned Andrew into a terrorist, and the actual footage he viewed online is woven through the film in stark uncut form, surely leaving every mother wondering what her son is up to behind closed doors.—Anonymous
Andrew Ibrahim,a middle-class boy of Anglo-Egyptian parentage, is a loner with a drug habit,who finds salvation of a kind when he converts to Islam and changes his name to Isa a year after the 7/7 bombings in London. However his zeal for his new-found religion leads him to attempt to blow up a shopping centre in his home town of Bristol. Following a tip-off from the local Muslim community Ibrahim is watched by the police and arrested after a raid reveals that he has explosives in his possession. In 2009 he is sentenced to an indeterminate prison term with a recommended minimum of ten years. The film tells his story via reenactment and interviews with his mother,school contemporaries and the police in addition to CCTV footage of his exploits.—don @ minifie-1