The Imperialists Are Still Alive!

A successful French-Middle Eastern visual artist working in post-9/11 Manhattan, Asya lives the life of the hip and glamorous—exclusive art parties, supermodels, and stretch limousines—while carefully following the situation in the Middle East on television. One night she learns that her childhood friend, Faisal, has disappeared, the victim of a purported CIA abduction, and on the same night meets Javier, a sexy Mexican PhD student, with whom romance blossoms. Javier finds Asya’s conspiracy theories overly paranoid—but nothing in her world is as it seems. Zeina Durra’s debut feature is an alluring, intelligent, and funny look at the way the War on Terror seeps into the texture of everyday American life.