The directorial debut of journalist-turned-filmmaker Dina Amer, You Resemble Me does not give us a clue about the kind of film it would morph into, when it begins from two young, inseparable sisters.
The girls are evidently not having the best days of their childhood, with an uncaring mother who seems hell-bent on snatching away even the smallest of joys they can afford. But the two sisters stick together, with Hasna, the elder one, ensuring that her younger sibling Mariam does not go hungry or without a gift on her birthday.
However, Dina’s intent in the powerful initial parts of the film, screened in the International Competition category at the ongoing 26th International Film Festival of Kerala (IFFK), is to show us the early life of someone who would come to be identified as Hasna Ait Boulahcen, known as Europe’s first female bomber.
