ABOUT THE FILM:

In the bliss of their new love, Ali and Katie start to build their life together in New York City, he as an Iraqi immigrant seeking political asylum and she, an ambitious American woman. When a crisis strikes back in Baghdad in the thick of his asylum process, Ali and Katie are forced to navigate its impact on their relationship... and the secrets they have been keeping from each other. 

Traversing trust and shame, rejection and acceptance, and how best to love one another amidst it all, Katie and Ali face an existential question: is it worth crossing borders, both national and personal, to save what they have? Centered around a fantastic performance from Adam Bakri (star of Hany Abu-Assad’s Academy Award-nominated masterpiece Omar), If You See Something is a beautiful and heartbreaking film that marks Iraqi director Oday Rasheed’s American debut.

ABOUT THE FILMMAKER:

Oday Rasheed was born in Iraq in 1973. He wrote critical essays and articles on cinema until the late 1990s when Rasheed produced several experimental movies including Mud Whiteness (1997), Another Introduction (1998), and Gilgamesh: The Epic (2002). His screenplays for television include Hujaz Kar (1996-97), Document I2 (1998) and Once in Babylon (2002). As a director, his films Underexposure (2005) and Qarantina (2010) released to critical success. If You See Something will be Rasheed’s American debut. Passionate about reviving Iraqi cinema, he aims to encourage young Iraqi filmmakers to continue expressing themselves and advocating for hope, peace and freedom.