00:00Finally, they were dismissed as jihadi brides, a shorthand that failed to capture the complex reasons behind teenage Muslim girls heading to Syria as followers of Islamic State.
00:11A new film aims to explain the motivations. It is a first for the artistic director of the Young Vic Theatre in London, Nadia Hall.
00:19She hopes it will make people think.
00:22It has to come when you can't. From the border, remember?
00:25Hundreds are thought to have made a dangerous and illegal journey from the UK to Syria to join the Islamic State group.
00:34Brides follows the story of two teenagers.
00:39Shamima Begum is perhaps the best-known British-born young person to make the treacherous trip. Her story influenced the film's creation.
00:47We filmed in the bus station where Shamima Begum and her friends waited for a bus to the border of Turkey.
00:55It's absolutely based on real life, but it's definitely a made-up story.
01:01I don't want to go. You're going to last five minutes out there.
01:03Given the widespread condemnation of those who seek out a terrorist organisation, some may question the film's purpose.
01:10All the media sort of portrayed the young women as monsters, and they were quite vilified.
01:18Can you understand why people made that assumption that, well, they must be bad because they're choosing to join a particular group that has caused great harm?
01:27Absolutely, and I think it's really complicated, and I think our film doesn't really, I think, strive to give all the answers.
01:36It's about asking the questions of why.
01:39Are you serious? I'm getting out of here.
01:43Nadia believes the movie, out on Friday, can initiate debate rather than glamorise hate.
01:49I think the most dangerous thing for society is when we stop talking to each other across party lines.
01:56So I really, I mean, what I really love is that people watch this film and then have a discussion.
02:01Is it your first time in Turkey?
02:04Safiya and Ibada play their friends at the centre of the story, personally affected by others making the journey in real life.
02:10It's upsetting that people from our community feel like they've been pushed to those, these extremes.
02:18No one wants to see children being lost to an ideology that is actively harming them.
02:26The subject matter may have detracted many, but it drew Ibada to the role.
02:31This is written by Sudanese Muslim women, it's directed by Pakistani Muslim women.
02:35They're the right people to be making this type of film.
02:38And we were happy to be involved in it because if it wasn't us telling the story,
02:43then it would be someone else and the story wouldn't be told in the right way.
02:46Bus tickets, money!
02:48As a topic, few could prove to be more controversial.
02:51Bright's creators say they're trying to humanise the headlines.
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