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RESPITE (2019, USA)
Feature Film, Action, Crime, Drama
Running Time: 80 min
WORLD PREMIERE
Director: Saro Varjabedian
Writers: Saro Varjabedian, Ali Abouomar
Producer: Monte Bezell
Cast: Monte Bezell, Julián Juaquín, Ahmet Devran Dayanc, Haythem Noor, Leslie Kalarchian, Baylen Thomas
Logline: A down-and-out private-eye is hired by the parents of a missing college aged boy to find their son, when he stumbles upon a series of murders and now believes he is on the hunt for a serial killer targeting muslim men.
Synopsis: Jimmy Baz, a down-and-out private-eye is reluctantly hired by the parents of a missing college aged boy to find their son. As Jimmy searches for the missing boy he stumbles upon a series of murders and now believes he is on the hunt for a serial killer targeting muslim men. Things take a sinister turn as his investigation leads him into the underworld of Bachi Basi, the taboo Afghani practice of child sex trafficking of young boys that are made to resemble young girls.
