24 Days: The True Story of the Ilan Halimi Affair) is a French drama film directed by Alexandre Arcady released in 2014.
[2] On a Friday night of January 2006, after Shabbat dinner with his mother (Zabou Breitman) and sister, 23-year-old Ilan Halimi (Syrus Shahidi) receives a phone call.
Ilan quickly arranges to meet up with the caller, a beautiful young woman, and is subsequently attacked and kidnapped by a gang.
The film depicts the next 24 days, in which the Halimi family receives over 700 threatening phone calls from Ilan's kidnappers.
The film is a chilling depiction of the real-life events surrounding the attack, and presents a commentary on growing anti-Semitism in France.