The Imperialists Are Still Alive!
+ director Q&A
LONDON PREMIERE
Filmmaker: Zeina Durra
With Elodie Bouchez (Cannes best actress winner for The Dreamlife of Angels)
USA / 2010 / 90 min / English
Awards: Winner: Best Feature, Warsaw Film Festival 2010 / Nominated: Grand Jury Prize, Sundance Film Festival 2010
ICA Cinema 1, Sat 12 March, 6.45 pm
Part comedy, part alluring commentary on post-9/11 America, this razor-sharp drama follows an Arabic artist in New York
Visual artist Asya follows the politics of her Middle East homeland on TV while enjoying a chic Manhattan lifestyle of parties, supermodels and limos. But when a childhood friend disappears, Asya suspects a CIA abduction and - to her new boyfriend's bemusement - sets out to crack the conspiracy. Nominated for the Sundance Grand Jury Prize, director Zeina Durra fuses dry comedy with alluring political drama, brilliantly depicting the everyday paranoia of post-9/11 America.
Director Zeina Durra will be joining us for a Q&A after this screening
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Zeina Durra
Zeina Durra is a British writer and director, making her feature debut with The Imperialists Are Still Alive!. She read Oriental Studies at Oxford University and took the Graduate Film Programme at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts.