Full Contact (2015 film)

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Full Contact
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Film poster
Directed by David Verbeek
Written byDavid Verbeek
Starring Grégoire Colin
Release date
  • 15 September 2015 (2015-09-15)(TIFF)
Running time
105 minutes
CountriesNetherlands
Croatia
LanguagesEnglish
French

Full Contact is a 2015 Dutch-Croatian drama film directed by David Verbeek. It was shown in the Platform section of the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival. [1]

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Presented in two chapters, a French drone pilot flies drones in the Middle East from Nevada in the United States. He carries out a drone strike on a building to kill a terrorist inside, but he discovers afterward that the building was a school for boys. [2]

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References

  1. "Toronto International Film Festival Announces Inaugural Platform Lineup". IndieWire. Retrieved 14 August 2015.
  2. Ford, Rebecca (13 September 2015). "TIFF: Drone Pic 'Full Contact' Looks at Cost of War". The Hollywood Reporter . Retrieved 14 September 2015.