New US Trailer for Adil & Bilall’s Intense War Film ‘Rebel’ About Syria
by Alex Billington
August 15, 2023
Source: YouTube
“I’m just trying to survive.” Yellow Veil Pictures has debuted an official US trailer for the intense war film Rebel, an action thriller made by the acclaimed Belgian-Moroccan filmmaking duo known as Adil & Bilall. This first premiered at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival last year, and we posted a UK trailer for it last fall. Adil El Arbi & Bilall Fallah are known as talented action directors who broke into Hollywood with Bad Boys for Life, then Disney+’s “Ms. Marvel” series as well as Batgirl for WB (before they canned it). This was made inbetween all that. Set in Brussels and Syria, Kamal resolves to change his life for the better, so he leaves to help war victims in Syria. But he is forced to join a militia and is left stranded in Raqqa, suddenly working for the bad guys. Back home, his younger brother Nassim quickly becomes easy prey for radical recruiters, who promise to reunite him. Their mother, Leila, fights to protect the only thing she has left: her youngest son. Rebel stars Amir El Arbi, Aboubakr Bensaihi, Younes Bouab, Kamal Moummad, and Lubna Azabal. There’s also a terrific new poster for the film – seen below. Highly recommend catching up with it.
Here’s the official US trailer (+ new US poster) for Adil & Bilall’s film Rebel, direct from YouTube:
You can also rewatch the other international trailer for Adil & Bilall’s Rebel here, for more footage.
This is one gut punch of a thriller. Brothers Kamal (Aboubakr Bensaihi) and Nassim (Amir El Arbi) find themselves on radically different life paths after Kamal leaves to help victims in Syria, leaving his young brother at home to care for their mother Leila (Lubna Azabal). However, after discovering Kamal has been radicalised by a local militia, Nassim goes to desperate lengths in the attempt to save his brother and bring him home – without realising he may be on the exact same path of self-destruction as his brother. Rebel is directed by acclaimed Belgian-Moroccan filmmakers Adil El Arbi & Bilall Fallah, of the films Image, Black, Gangsta, and the sequel Bad Boys for Life previously; they also directed Batgirl (which WB cancelled) and TV series including “Bergica”, “Soil”, and “Ms. Marvel” for Disney. The script is also written by Adil El Arbi & Bilall Fallah, with Kevin Meul and Jan van Dyck. The film initially premiered at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival earlier this year. The film already debuted last year in the UK. Yellow Veil Pictures will debut Adil & Bilall’s Rebel in select US theaters starting on September 15th, 2023. Who wants to watch?