Released on: 2005
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In Her Own Words | Zeina Durra Shares a Scene from "The Imperialists Are Still Alive!"
Zeina Durra's first feature, "The Imperialists Are Still Alive!," follows Asya, a successful visual artist working in post 9/11 Manhattan who strikes up a romance with a sexy Mexican PhD student the same night her childhood friend, Faisai, goes missing. indieWIRE is pleased to reveal an exclusive scene from the film, which hits select theaters this Friday, April 15 through Sundance Selects. Why This Scene? Layering the complexities of how »
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Cannes film festival: Lynne Ramsay leads female charge
After criticism of last year's male-dominated shortlist, the Cannes film festival puts British director of We Need to Talk About Kevin alongside three other female film-makers in Palme D'Or running
British director Lynne Ramsay is set to lead a quartet of female film-makers into competition at next month's Cannes film festival – the largest representation in the event's 64-year history. Scots-born Ramsay, whose previous films include Ratcatcher and Morvern Callar, will contest the crowning Palme d'Or award with We Need to Talk About Kevin, an adaptation of the best-selling novel by Lionel Shriver. Backed by BBC Films, the picture stars Tilda Swinton and John C Reilly as middle-class parents toiling to understand the actions of their sociopathic teenaged son.
The 2010 Cannes film festival was criticised for a competition shortlist entirely dominated by male directors. The organisers appear to have taken the comments to heart. Joining Ramsay in the race for the»
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