THE AMINA PROFILE by Sophie Deraspe
All Films
•
1h 25m
Documentary, 85 min., Quebec, Canada, 2015
Amina Arraf, a pretty Syrian-American revolutionary who’s having an online affair with Montrealer Sandra Bagaria, launches the provocatively named blog A Gay Girl in Damascus. As the Syrian uprising gains momentum, the blog attracts a huge following. But it’s Amina’s subsequent abduction that sparks an international outcry to free her.Telling a detective story that involves various intelligence agencies and global media empires, the film travels from San Francisco and Washington to Istanbul, Tel Aviv and Beirut to meet the key players in this quest to reveal the real Amina. This thoroughly modern tale of technology, love and news-as-spectacle questions the ways in which people connect in today’s virtual world. The Amina Profile is part love story, part international thriller, and a gripping chronicle of an unprecedented media and sociological hoax.
Screenplay and direction : Sophie Deraspe
Image : Sophie Deraspe
Sound conception: Frédéric Cloutier
Sound mixing: Luc Boudrias
Editing : Geoffrey Boulangé et Sophie Deraspe
Music : Sam Shalabi
Production : Isabelle Couture (Esperamos)
Up Next in All Films
-
THE ASSAILANT by Olivier D. Asselin
Among the concrete highways, as life constantly keeps driving people crazier and crazier, a small group is peacefully enjoying its coffee break. Momentarily without their day-to-day concerns, rescued by the sunny temperature from their every-instant run life, everyone is slowly enjoying its caffe...
-
THE BROTHER by Jérémie Battaglia
28 min, documentary, animation, Canada, 2019
Directed by Jérémie Battaglia
Produced by Les Films Extérieur Jour
Language french/japaneseSynopsis
Suffering from an illness causing paralysis in his body, Kais is awakened every morning by a different member of his family. Stuck in a frozen body,... -
THE CURTAIN by Frédéric Desager
Short Film, 13 min., Quebec, Canada, 2013
Pierre, an eight years old young boy, spends most of his summer vacation behind the curtain of the dining room's window. He dreams of playing basketball with the other kids what his overprotective mother constantly denies him. One day Pierre decides to...
