AFTERSCHOOL FORBIDDEN LIE$
Directed by Antonio Campos; USA; 2008 Directed by Anna Broinowski;
Australia; 2007
2009 Independent Spirit Award Nomi-
2007 AFI Awards Nomination for
nation for Best First Feature for Antonio
Campos (director), T. Sean Durkin
Best Documentary
(producer) and Josh Mond (producer)
“It’s ‘faction’- fact and fiction,” says
It’s an elite New England boarding
Norma Khouri, “it’s like the DaV-
school. Athletics, beauty and drugs
inci code,” but the DaVinci code
serve as the currencies of the popular,
never painted the truth as Khouri
and Robert is broke by such standards.
did. Her friend suffered a violent
His mother ignores his phone call con-
death for being involved with a Chris-
fessions that he doesn’t fit the school
tian man and the family restored
dynamic and suggests a positive
honor through murder. Khouri fled
attitude or medical intervention.
Syria, wrote the book of her “true”
When it becomes mandatory to
account while in hiding and began
choose an after school activity, Robert
a personal mission against honor
gravitates toward the video club
killings. The book was an international
where his camera witnesses a high
bestseller, propelling Khouri to fame
school tragedy. Robert unveils how a
and fortune. She was a publisher’s
school confronts and glosses over
humble and heroic ideal until 2004,
the more bitter realities of life. Director
when esteemed journalist Malcolm
Antonio Campos, who was accepted
Knox exposed her book as a work
into the Cannes Film Residence
of fiction. Director Broinowski blurs
Program at the very young age of
traditional directorial bounds as much
twenty-two, is scheduled to present
as Norma blurs the bounds between
his film.
fact and fiction. Who is the true
Norma Khouri: the con or the artist?
The only reality of the film is that each
truth veils forbidden lies.
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