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[Plays May 13-23 as part of the MSPIFF40 Film Festival; for more information, log on to mspfilm.org/festivals/mspiff for full schedule.] After his older brother is arrested in Syria for organizing protests during the revolution in Rana Kazkaz's and Anas Khalaf's captivating, suspenseful, well-acted, realistic, heartbreaking, tense, 105-minute, 2020 political thriller, a guilt-ridden Arabic-English interpreter (Ziad Bakri) working for the Syrian Olympic team in Australia ends up seeking political asylum in 2000 in Sydney and then returns to war-torn Syria controlled by sadistic ruler Bashar al-Assad with an iron fist in 2011 to find where his brother is being held captive and to support his sister-in-law (Yumna Marwan) and young nephew (Rami Farah).
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