Sara is an Italian journalist who has come to the Middle East to report on the war waged against the Islamic State. Nur is a foreign fighter who was radicalized in London, married another fighter, and now lives in the caliphate. When Sara is kidnapped by ISIS and can’t be held in a prison alongside male prisoners – since, as a woman, she is considered an inferior being whose dignity lies solely in her submission to men – she is entrusted to the care of one of her ‘peer’s: a woman. Nur becomes her jailer, and her home, Sara’s prison. That house, in the middle of a training camp run by the Islamic State, is the place where Sara and Nur will face off. Their interaction is practically impossible and turns into psychological warfare as bombs explode all around them and enemies of the State are burned alive in revenge. It’s a dynamic based on silences, blackmail, and manipulation, as Nur gradually attempts to convert Sara.
screenplay
Alessio Cremonini
Monica Zapelli
cinematography
Ramiro Civita
editing
Marco Spoletini
production design
Sabrina Balestra
costumes
Angela Tomasicchio
cast
Jasmin Trinca (Sara)
Isabella Nefar (Nur)
Ziad Bakri (Isis Leader)
Omar El-Saeidi (prisoner)
Mehdi Meskar (Abdullah)
Marco Horanieh (Hassan)
Orwa Kulthoum (Omar)
producers
Olivia Musini
Luigi Musini
Mattia Guerra
Stefano Massenzi
Andrea Occhipinti
productions
Cinemaundici
Lucky Red
with Rai Cinema
in collaboration with
Sky Cinema
world sales
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Alessio Cremonini got his start as an AD to Ettore Scola on the film The Dinner. In 1997, he wrote and co-directed the short film Marta with Camilla Costanzo. In 2000, he co-wrote Voci, directed by Franco Girardi and based on the novel by Dacia Maraini. In 2003, he and Camilla Costanzo wrote and directed the Raiuno TV movie Una famiglia per caso. Cremonini co-wrote Private, Saverio Costanzo’s directorial debut, in 2004. In 2013, he wrote, directed and co-produced Border, a low-budget film about the civil war in Syria that screened at the festivals of Toronto, Rome, Cleveland, and Belfast, among others. In 2018, he wrote and directed On My Skin, his second feature film, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival in the Horizons section and went on to win four David di Donatello awards and the Silver Ribbon that year.
2022 Profeti
2018 Sulla mia pelle
2013 Border
1997 Marta (short)
