The Escape

Finland’s Yellow Film & TV is developing The Escape, which tells of Latifa’s relationship with her friend Tiina Jauhianen, a Finnish national.

Latifa attempted a daring escape in 2018 involving being hidden in the tyre compartment of a car and a jet-ski ride across the Gulf of Oman but she was forcibly returned to Dubai via a joint Indian-Emirati operation. Latifa and Jauhianen were kidnapped, imprisoned, and interrogated, with Jauhianen eventually deported from the UAE, and Latifa kept a prisoner in her own country. Following a sustained international campaign, Lafita was found several years later outside of Dubai and a UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said she had met her and she was well and wished for privacy.