Hourglass on Side
In director Josh Brownriggβs startlingly concise two-minute drama, Hourglass on Side presents a taut meditation on time...
In the tense and provocative thriller "Made in France," director Nicolas Boukhrief plunges viewers into the shadowy underbelly of homegrown extremism. Samy, played by Malik Zidi, is a young French journalist of Algerian descent who accepts a perilous undercover assignment to infiltrate a radical cell operating in the Parisian suburbs. As he gains the trust of the group's charismatic and volatile leader, portrayed by Dimitri Storoge, and its other members including Francois Civil and Nassim Si Ahmed, Samy finds the lines between his assumed identity and his own convictions dangerously blurred. The film masterfully builds a climate of paranoia and impending violence, exploring the complex motivations that drive ordinary men toward fanaticism. With each passing day, Samy's mission becomes a harrowing race against time, forcing him to confront the terrifying reality of an attack being planned on French soil, all while his own safety and sanity hang in the balance.