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Release date United States: Wednesday, May 9, 2007, DVD release: TBA

Director: Julia Loktev

Cast:

Luisa Williams as She
Josh Phillip Weinstein as Commander
Gareth Saxe as Organizer
Nyambi Nyambi as Organizer
Tschi Hun Kim as Driver
Annemarie Lawless as Bombmaker's Assistant
Frank Dattolo as Bombmaker

About:

A 19-year-old girl prepares to become a suicide bomber in Times Square. She speaks with no accent; it's impossible to pinpoint her ethnicity. We never learn why she made her decision -- she has made it already. We don't know whom she represents, what she believes in - we only know she believes it absolutely. The film strips the story down to its existential core. It focuses on microscopic movements, the smallest gestures, an economy of banal details. Inspired in part by a story in a Russian newspaper and playing off a history of Joan of Arc films, the film transpires on the girl's face. The minimalism of the face is confronted with the visual and aural noise of the city. Faith comes face-to-face with the possibility of failure.

Genres:
Drama

Producers: Melanie Judd Jessica Levin

Writers: Julia Loktev

Studio: IFC First Take