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Flying Blind

Synopsis

Flying Blind is a passionate post-9/11 love story that confronts cultural, racial and sexual taboos. It tells the story of an impossible love: an older woman with a younger man, in a world where security is paramount and nothing is quite what it seems.
Frankie works for a major aerospace manufacturer, designing drones for the military. She’s at the top of her game and in total control of her life. When she meets Kahil, a French-Algerian student, much younger than her, she embarks on a passionate affair and for the first time in her life she utterly, thrillingly, loses control. One morning, when she arrives for work, she’s detained by security and told that Kahil is a person of interest to the security services. She discovers that she has unwittingly crossed a line from control and security, into a nightmare world of suspicion and accusation. She now realises how little she knows of this man. But her love for him proves stronger than her mistrust, and she tries to find a way to protect her lover. Finally she discovers to her cost that betrayal always comes from those closest to us.

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Details

Year: 2012
Type of film: Features
Running time: 93 mins
Format: Arri Alexa
Director: Katarzyna Klimkiewicz 1st Feature
Producer: Alison Sterling
Executive Producer: Chris Moll, Steve Jenkins, Nigel Thomas
Editor: Ewa J Lind
Screenwriter: Naomi Wallace, Bruce McLeod, Caroline Harrington
Director of Photography: Andrzej Wojciechowski
Production Designer: Alison Riva
Sound: Ian Bown
Music: Jon Wygens
Principal cast: Helen McCrory, Kenneth Cranham, Najib Oudghiri, Tristan Gemmill
Costumes: Saffron Webb