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The View From Above

Synopsis

After a terrorist bombing, junior intelligence officer Helena Brennan is tasked with gathering information about a radical Muslim cleric - the notorious and elusive al Sharif. On travelling to Pakistan, Helena becomes involved in a botched mission to capture one of al Sharif’s key lieutenants. One of her colleagues is murdered, and the other is kidnapped and later executed, as Helena’s world disintegrates around her. She must hunt down the perpetrators to find redemption.
That’s the story. But the film doesn’t show you how the story unfolds. Instead, you encounter its characters alone in a black void, staring into the camera’s lens. Their faces are the film’s landscapes. They report on the lives they are forced to live and the harrowing world that we’ve imagined for them. THE VIEW FROM ABOVE is a film that asks spectators to confront the brutal, misogynist and white-supremacist ideologies of the stories we consume as entertainment. It seeks to reveal the role that so many contemporary thrillers force audiences to play and invites them to regret learning their lines.

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Details

Year: 2024
Type of film: Features
Running time: 104 min
Format: 4K
Director: Charlie Cattrall
Producer: Campbell Edinborough, Charlie Cattrall
Editor: Charlie Cattrall
Screenwriter: Campbell Edinborough
Director of Photography: Stanislav Dobak
Production Designer: Tim Skelly
Sound: Nicholas Longstaff
Music: Nicholas Longtaff
Principal cast: Gráinne O’Mahony, Sanee Raval, Ruth Everett, Jerry Killick, Kulvinder Ghir

Genre

Action Experimental Human Rights

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

University of Leeds

Woodhouse Lane
Leeds
West Yorkshire
LS2 9JT
United Kingdom

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