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Film SynopsisIdealism collides with complex realities in this wise and funny documentary. Amid the fallout from the Iraq War, actor Liev Schreiber spots a heart-tugging news story about an Iraqi film student, Muthana Mohmed. His school was bombed and Schreiber decides to give Mohmed a break, inviting him to work on the set of his first feature, Everything Is Illuminated. But things don't go according to plan as the filmmakers' do-gooder tendencies backfire, and Mohmed is left hanging in the lurch. Get Involved |
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Runtime:
95 min.
Genre:
Documentary
Country:
UNITED STATES
Language:
English/American
Color:
Color
Plot Summary
MTV's profile of Iraqi film student Muthana Mohmed led to his internship on a Hollywood set, with NINA DAVENPORT documenting the process. As Muthana adapts to radically different surroundings, miscommunications and power struggles become an allegory for ongoing tensions between the US and Iraq. Davenport describes how this extraordinary series of circumstances came to be, and her moral dilemmas as a documentarian faced with direct appeals from her subject
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Directed by
Nina Davenport
Produced by
Nina Davenport
David Schisgall
Writing credits
Nina Davenport
Cast
| Alberto Bonilla | ||
| Steven Chinni | ||
| Liev Schreiber |
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