迈克尔·贝导的这部新片根据米切尔·朱可夫（Mitchell Zuckoff）同名小说改编，是一部政治题材的电影。2012年9月11日，在利比亚班加西的美国领事馆前发生一起反美示威事件，入夜后数十名武装分子冲进领事馆，示威演变为暴力冲突，最终导致包括美国大使约翰·克里斯托弗·史蒂文斯（Christopher J. Stevens）在内的四人死亡，这也是33年以来第一个被恐怖分子杀害的美国大使，影片《危机13小时》就是由这一真实事件取材。

加麦，七世纪，穆罕默德与城市的强权者们斗争着，他揭露他们的专横，以及它造成的疾病－奴隶制，暴力，酗酒，特别是，穆罕默德和他的信徒们鼓励人们忘却旧偶像，只崇拜唯一的真主，他们的对手毫不犹豫的迫害并折磨他们的近亲。然而，和平的穆斯林们明白，该为尊重自己的正义而奋战…

From the author of In the Country of Men, a Man Booker Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, comes a beautifully written, uplifting memoir of his journey home to his native Libya in search of the truth behind his father’s disappearance.
When Hisham Matar was a nineteen-year-old university student in England, his father was kidnapped. One of the Qaddafi regime’s most prominent opponents in exile, he was held in a secret prison in Libya. Hisham would never see him again. But he never gave up hope that his father might still be alive. “Hope,” as he writes, “is cunning and persistent.”
Twenty-two years later, after the fall of Qaddafi, the prison cells are empty and there is no sign of Jaballa Matar. Hisham returns with his mother and wife to the homeland he never thought he’d go back to again. The Return is the story of what he found there. It is at once an exquisite meditation on history, politics, and art, a brilliant portrait of a nation and a people on the cusp of change, and a disquieting depiction of the brutal legacy of absolute power. Above all, it is a universal tale of loss and love and of one family’s life. Hisham Matar asks the harrowing question: How does one go on living in the face of a loved one’s uncertain fate?