If You See Something (2024)

Not a Monarch Kaleidoscope Production

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.

Format

Narrative Feature Film

Production Companies

9th Street Films & Greenmachine Film

Credits

DIRECTOR: Oday Rasheed
WRITER: Jess Jacobs & Avram Noble Ludwig
PRODUCERS: Jess Jacobs, Stephanie Roush, & Brian Newman
EXEC. PRODUCER: Doug Liman
ASSOCIATE PRODUCER: Emily McCann Lesser
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Daniel Vecchione
PRODUCTION DESIGNER: Cheyenne Ford
COMPOSERS: Bryan Keller
EDITOR: Soojin Chung
CASTING DIRECTORS: Paul Schnee
SOUND DESIGNER: Nathan Ruyle

Status

Premiering at Woodstock Film Festival 2024

Cast

Jess Jacobs, Adam Bakri, Reed Birney, Lucy Owen, & Reggie Gowland