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Completed - Thriller - 93 minutes

Log Line

A passionate post 9/11 love story: an older woman with a young Muslim man, in a world where security is paramount and nothing is quite what it seems.

Year of production : 2012

Director(s) : Kasia KLIMKIEWICZ
Writer(s) : Bruce MCLEOD, Naomi WALLACE
Cast : Helen MCCRORY, Kenneth CRANHAM, Najib OUDGHIRI, Tristan GEMMIL

Producer(s) : Alison STERLING (Ignition Films)

Synopsis

Frankie is part of the war-machine, a successful aerospace engineer designing drones for the military. Then she meets Kahil, a French-Algerian student. They embark on a passionate affair and for the first time in her life Frankie utterly, thrillingly, loses control.
One morning at work, she’s detained by the security services and told that Kahil may not be quite what he seems. She finds that she has crossed a line of safety into a nightmare world of suspicion and accusation. Realising how little she knows of this man, Frankie determines to find out the truth, only to discover to her cost that betrayal always comes from those closest to us.

Production

Country(ies) : UNITED KINGDOM

Financing plan : South West Screen and BBC Films, in association with Matador Pictures, Cinema Six, Regent Capital and the City of Bristol. The distributor is Soda Pictures.

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