Caliphate (Season 1)

Caliphate (Kalifat, 2020) is a Swedish thriller you can watch online on iFILM. Security service agent Fatima gets a tip that an attack on Sweden is being planned.

The story braids together several young women. Pervin followed her militant husband to Syria, had a daughter there, and now wants out — but she's watched around the clock. In Stockholm, schoolgirl Sulle falls for the quiet pull of a charismatic mentor who slowly opens the door to radicalization. Using a smuggled phone, Pervin reaches Fatima and bargains for a way home, the price being a role as an informant.

Director Goran Kapetanović builds eight tense episodes around how recruitment actually works — not through slogans, but through loneliness, resentment and the need to belong. Aired on Sweden's SVT, it sparked real debate at home. A bleak, uncomfortable watch for fans of European drama that refuses an easy ending. Stream every episode of Caliphate (2020) online on iFILM.