Gheed — an exuberant, intelligent and very funny actress so clearly destined for international fame — has, like all the greats, jettisoned her surname. Audiences at Director’s Fortnight will get a taste of the Gheed experience when she arrives with her feature-film debut, Atonement. The first film from American director Reed Van Dyk, and based on a true story, it features Gheed as Nora, an Iraqi girl who loses her father and two brothers during a friendly-fire incident in Baghdad. Playing opposite her is Boyd Holbrook, who stars as Lou, a U.S. Marine who is later wracked with guilt and
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