The first trailer for “You Resemble Me” has been unveiled, the debut of director Dina Amer, co-producer of The Square. The film debuted in Venice in 2021 and has had a great festival since then, earning acclaim on the way.
Produced by CEO Spike Lee, Spike Jones, Riz Ahmed and Alma Harel, the film tells the true story of Hasna Ait Boulahcen, a woman falsely accused of being Europe’s first female suicide bomber. The film is about two sisters on the outskirts of Paris and after the siblings are torn apart, the elder Hasna struggles to find her identity, which leads to a choice that shocks the world.
Amer said diverse The starting point of the film was a video clip of the Charlie Hebdo attacks. “As an Egyptian Muslim woman living in the West, I have struggled to reconcile parts of my identity that seem contradictory. I am a woman who has spent most of my life praying discreetly in public (airports are the hardest). Yet I do not look like what most society imagines as a Muslim woman “I don’t wear the hijab and I love Cardi B,” Aamir said in the director’s statement about the film.
“All my life I have lived with how failure to reconcile a Western Muslim identity with such apparent contradictions can lead to a painful headline,” adds Amer. This film is a journey through layers of disassociation, from personal and familial to religious and colonial. A spectacle of divided identities and cracked dreams.
Actors include Lorenza Grimaudo, Ilona Grimaudo, Mona Sawalem, Sabrina Ozani and Aamer. The film begins November 4 in New York City and November 11 in Los Angeles, with a nationwide US showing.
Watch the trailer here:
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