You Resemble Me and the feature and directorial debut of The Square associate producer Dina Amer trailer has been unveiled. The film first ran at Venice film festival in 2021 and has had an impressive run since its debut, picking up plaudits.
The film is executively produced by Spike Lee, Spike Jonze, Riz Ahmed, and Alma Har’el. The film follows the true story of Hasna Ait Boulahcen, a woman who was falsely accused of being Europe’s first female suicide bomber. The narrative will follow two sisters on the outskirts of Paris after being taken away from each other. After the split, the eldest sister Hasna struggles to find herself, which leads to shocking choices.
The casting includes Lorenza Grimaudo, llonna Grimaudo, Mouna Soualem, Sabrina Ouazani, and Amer. The film starts with the Bataclan Attacks in Paris where Dina Amer was a journalist reporting on the attack. When speaking on the project and her own identity in the director’s statement, Amer said “As a Muslim Egyptian woman living in the West, I’ve struggled to reconcile pieces of my identity that feel contradictory. I am a woman who has spent the majority of my life praying discreetly in public spaces (airports are the hardest). And yet I don’t look like what most of society envisions as a Muslim woman. I don’t wear a hijab and I love Cardi B,” Amer says in her director’s statement on the film.” She continued.
The film opens November 4th in New York City and November 11 in Los Angeles following a national role out. You can watch the trailer here.
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