Four Lions
Four Lions tells the story of a group of British jihadists who push their abstract dreams of glory to the breaking point. As the wheels fly off, and their competing ideologies clash, what emerges is an emotionally engaging (and entirely plausible) farce. In a storm of razor-sharp verbal jousting and large-scale set pieces, Four Lions is a comic tour de force; it shows that-while terrorism is about ideology-it can also be about idiots.
Comedy, Crime, Drama
Film4, Drafthouse Films, Warp Films, Wild Bunch Distribution
Riz Ahmed as Omar, Nigel Lindsay as Barry, Kayvan Novak as Waj, Adeel Akhtar as Faisal, Arsher Ali as Hassan, Preeya Kalidas as Sofia, Benedict Cumberbatch as The Negotiator, Julia Davis as Alice, Craig Parkinson as Matt, Wasim Zakir as Ahmed, Mohammad Aqil as Mahmood, Karl Seth as Uncle Imran, Waleed Elgadi as Khalid, Alex MacQueen as Malcolm Storge MP, Shameem Ahmad as Chairwoman, Jonathan Maitland as Newsreader, Marcus Garvey as Marathon Policeman, Darren Boyd as Sniper, Kevin Eldon as Sniper, Adil Mohammed Javed as Nabil