Brides

10/3/2025

Two disillusioned British girls find themselves flying from London to Istanbul where they are to meet someone who will take them on to war torn Syria. Sadly for them, things at the Bean Kafe don’t go quite to plan and they have to improvise, think on their feet, and make their own way to their destination. We are never quite sure what their ultimate goal is, here, but as we follow their adventures we learn a little more about what motivated the more extrovert “Muna” (Safiyya Ingar) and her more subdued travel companion “Doe” (Ebada Hassan). The latter was having an hard time at school from an obnoxious bully, and her mum’s new choice of boyfriend wasn’t impressing her much either. “Muna” came from a more established, stable, background but with both of them exasperated and feeling that the