A Gay Girl in Damascus: The Amina Profile
A Gay Girl in Damascus: The Amina Profile

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When well-known Syrian blogger Amina Arraf - purportedly kidnapped by local authorities during the Arab Spring - was revealed to be an elaborate hoax persona, an entire international community realized it had been catfished. But the betrayal cut deepest for Canadian activist Sandra Bagaria, who had been involved in an online relationship with Amina. Playing out like a detective story, A GAY GIRL IN DAMASCUS reconstructs this astounding tale of global deceit from Sandra's pers... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in A Gay Girl in Damascus: The Amina Profile:

Nilay Olçay
Sandra Bagaria
Ali Abunimah
Fady Atallah
Andy Carvin
Nathalie Claude

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When well-known Syrian blogger Amina Arraf - purportedly kidnapped by local authorities during the Arab Spring - was revealed to be an elaborate hoax persona, an entire international community realized it had been catfished. But the betrayal cut deepest for Canadian activist Sandra Bagaria, who had been involved in an online relationship with Amina. Playing out like a detective story, A GAY GIRL IN DAMASCUS reconstructs this astounding tale of global deceit from Sandra's perspective. As she crosses the globe in search of answers, questioning journalists, activists, and intelligence agencies, she prepares for a face-to-face confrontation with Amina's true creator.

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Los Angeles Times - 9/10 by Sheri LindenSophie Deraspe's film is a compelling anatomy of an Internet hoax.
NPR - 9/10 by Mark JenkinsEven those who followed Amina's rise and fall in the ultimately chastened media will find Gay Girl a nifty piece of detective work.
PopMatters - 8/10 by Cynthia FuchsEven as its use of reenactment, narration, and text continue to complicate the genre, A Gay Girl in Damascus raises other questions, too, regarding other sorts of storytelling, in news, social media, and political movements.
RogerEbert.com - 8/10 by Sheila O'MalleyA compelling and insightful examination of this strange story, and it utilizes the cooperation of Sandra Bagaria, the Canadian woman who had been in a long-distance romantic relationship with Amina (even though the two had never met.)
San Francisco Chronicle - 8/10 by David LewisThe film falters a bit near the end, when it dwells on the romantic fallout of the affair, but all in all, “Amina” is an enterprising movie that makes this Internet story cinematically engaging.
Nonfics - 8/10 by Christopher CampbellThe key to The Amina Profile's success is that, despite its twist, it is not constructed wholly in service to that twist.
HitFix - 8/10 by Dan FienbergEven though The Amina Profile works as a cyber-thriller of sorts, I think it's much more wide-reaching than that, a story about online identity, but also about the danger of media-constructed narratives, one that manages to salute both citizen journalists, but also establishment outlets like NPR.
Eye for Film - 8/10 by Amber WilkinsonDirector Sophie Deraspe brings a strong sense of the cinematic to what, on paper, looks like a poor candidate for it.
Variety - 8/10 by Ben KenigsbergThe insights the movie has aren’t exceptional; this stranger-than-fiction series of events is enough.
The Playlist - 8/10 by Kimber MyersThe documentary feels more like a mystery and almost like fiction itself as it unravels the multiple layers behind Amina’s real identity. The revelation is jaw-dropping and infuriating, and the outrage only increases as each additional detail is uncovered.

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