Day Night Day Night
Germany, United States, France
2006
94 Min
Color
1.85:1
English
Synopsis
Standing at 5’6", a 19 year old female, of unknown racial origin and religion, volunteers to be a suicide bomber. She is provided with a backpack containing explosives, detailed instructions by a masked female and several masked men, and is told that her name is Leah Cruz, and is born on April 10, 1987. Appropriately dressed, she is told to push a button on her ear-phones when she reaches a crowded place in Times Square New York – an action that will detonate the explosives in the backpack. All identification is removed from her person, she is blindfolded and driven to a transit stop from where she will board a bus to her destination and ultimately find her way to carry out her deadly task. –IMDb
Director
Julia Loktev
Julia Loktev was born in Russia in 1969 and moved to the US when she was nine. She studied film at New York University and wrote, directed and edited her first documentary, Moment of Impact (1998) on her own. Presented at Locarno, it also won several prizes including the Directing Award Documentary at Sundance, the Grand Prize at Cinéma du Réel in Paris and Best Documentary Film at Karlovy Vary. Day Night Day Night (2006) premiered in Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes, where it won the Prix Regards Jeunes. Julia Loktev also makes video art installations that have been exhibited in art museums worldwide, such as Tate Modern, and was awarded a 2009 Guggenheim Fellowship. The Loneliest Planet (2011) is her second fiction feature film. –Locarno Film Festival
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