Soumaya

One day, Soumaya— a practicing Muslim, a woman of color, a mother, and an executive at an airport transportation company in Paris— is fired from her job of fourteen years without explanation or warning. Later that night, she sees on TV that news outlets are linking her to jihadist circles, days after her apartment is raided by police. Not about to sit by in silence, Soumaya decides to exercise her right of reply in court— where her legal team hopes to demonstrate that she was fired as the result of discrimination. Based on real events, SOUMAYA shines a light on the devastating repercussions of anti-terrorist policing and Islamophobia in the wake of the November 2015 Paris attacks.