Origin: USA | Documentary | Director: Assia Boundaoui | 87 minutes

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The Feeling of Being Watched

by Assia Boundaoui (Algeria/USA). documentary 87 min. English. USA 2018

Synopsis

In the Arab-American neighborhood outside of Chicago where journalist and filmmaker Assia Boundaoui grew up, most of her neighbors think they have been under surveillance for over a decade. While investigating those rumors, she uncovers tens of thousands of pages of FBI documents that prove her hometown was subject of one of the largest counter terrorism investigations ever conducted in the U.S. before 9/11, code-named “Operation Vulgar Betrayal.”  The film follows Assia as she pieces together this secret FBI operation and confronts long-hidden truths about the FBI’s relationship to her community while grappling with the effects of a lifetime of surveillance on herself and her family.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7q1TGNTVQrM

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