Timur Bekmambetov’s Profile, a thriller about a European journalist who goes undercover as a Jihadi bride for Isis, has won the Panorama Audience Award at the Berlin International Film Festival.The drama is told entirely on the journalist’s computer, using FaceTime, Skype, Facebook, video downloads and various web pages and social media platforms.
Bekmambetov, whose Hollywood output has included Wanted, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter and Ben-Hur, has been a regular in Berlin.
He previously screened his breakout Russian horror fantasy Night Watch and its sequel Day Watch at the festival.The Panorama Audience Award for best documentary went to…
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