Watch UK Trailer For Dina Amer’s You Resemble Me

Modern Films have announced they are set to release Dina Amer‘s directorial feature debut You Resemble Me, early 2023. Today they have sent us the film’s official UK Trailer.

The film stars Lorenza Grimaudo, Illona Grimaudo, Mouna Soualem, Sabrina Ouazani, Dina Amer, Alexandre Gonin, and Sana Sri. Amer has an impressive list of executive producers onboard Spike Lee, Spike Jonze, Riz Ahmed and Alma Har’el,

The film promises to takes on the darkest issues of our time. Deconstructs it in an intimate story about family, love, sisterhood, and belonging. True life dramas or ones inspired by events will touch nerve inside us. This looks powerful and emotive…

Cultural and intergenerational trauma erupt in this story about two sisters on the outskirts of Paris. After the siblings are torn apart, the eldest, Hasna, struggles to find her identity, leading to a choice that shocks the world. Director Dina Amer takes on one of the darkest issues of our time and deconstructs it in an intimate story about family, love, sisterhood, and belonging.

Drawn from true events surrounding the 2015 Paris attacks and over 300 hours of interview footage with Hasna’s real family and inner circle, YOU RESEMBLE ME is a cautionary tale examining some of the possible drivers and roots of religious radicalisation. The award-winning journalist-turned-filmmaker Dina Amer describes her film as “an invitation to look before and behind the headlines, not for absolute truths or permanent answers, but an insistence on lifting the veils and beginning the conversations that conceal our shared humanity.”

Egyptian-American Amer, who previously garnered praise for investigating the human trafficking of Syrian refugees as well as the underground economy of illegal Egypt-Gaza tunnels, covered the 2015 Paris attacks as an on-air correspondent for VICE News. She helped produce the Oscar-nominated and Emmy award-winning documentary The Square, which chronicled the Egyptian Revolution from the frontlines.

You Resemble Me will be released in UK and Irish cinemas from 3rd February 2023.