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Bataclan: Film based on surviving terror attack becomes surprise hit of Venice Film Festival

You blame yourself, that these people are dead and you’re alive, and every time you mess something up, whatever makes you feel that your life doesn’t amount to much, you think about these people. Because they were so young, and you think about what they could have done in your stead.”

36-year-old Paris-based film director, Ismaël El Iraki, recalls his experience of surviving the Bataclan terrorist attack of November 2015 in Paris, in which 130 people were murdered at a concert he attended.

His first feature film, Zanka Contact, is based on what happened to him after the attack and has now been sold after winning an award last week at the prestigious Venice Film Festival.

Thinking back to 2015, the director explains that he left the Bataclan injured, but crucially, alive. “I thought I was dead for the first three days afterwards because someone killed the guy next to me and the girl on my other side. He shot me – twice – and he missed me.”

“Originally this movie was simply going to be about a guy who experiences a shoot-out at one of his concerts,” El Iraki continues.
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