''The Amina Profile'' (French: ''Le profil Amina'') is a 2015 Canadian documentary film directed by

Sophie Deraspe Sophie Deraspe (born October 27, 1973) is a Canadian director, scenarist, director of photography and producer. Prominent in new Quebec cinema, she is known for a 2015 documentary ''The Amina Profile'', an exploration of the Amina Abdallah Arraf a ...

and coproduced by Esperamos and the

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, which premiered at the

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in the World Cinema category. It was pitched at

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's MeetMarket in 2014. The film was retitled ''A Gay Girl in Damascus: The Amina Profile'' by its U.S. distributor IFC for the theatrical release and for subsequent film festival screenings.

Synopsis

The film centres on Sandra Bagaria, a Montreal woman who was in an online relationship with star blogger

Amina Abdallah Arraf al Omari ''A Gay Girl In Damascus'' was a weblog purportedly by Amina Abdallah Arraf al Omari who was in fact a fictional character and hoax persona created and maintained by American Tom MacMaster. The identity was presented as a Syrian-American blogger ...

. Bagaria became involved in the international attempt to rescue Arraf after her purported abduction by the Syrian regime.

Reception

Under its French title, ''Le profil Amina'', the film was named Best Documentary:Society at the 2016

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, honouring the best in francophone Canadian television. The film received

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nominations for Best Feature Length Documentary and Best Editing in a Documentary at the 4th Canadian Screen Awards. It was shortlisted for the

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in 2016.David Rémillard
"Chorus remporte le Prix collégial du cinéma québécois"
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'', March 19, 2016.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Amina Profile, The 2015 films Documentary films about LGBT and Islam 2015 LGBT-related films Documentary films about the Internet National Film Board of Canada documentaries Films directed by Sophie Deraspe Documentary films about lesbians English-language Canadian films French-language Canadian films Arabic-language Canadian films 2010s Canadian films Canadian LGBT-related documentary films

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