What Goes Up
2024, English. Directed by Samar Al Summary.
The aeroplanes are stationary, nothing moves, nothing takes off at the US military airbase in Arizona – until a young woman in a white dress begins to jump on a trampoline outside the fence, framed by an idyllic sunset. She conveys her story from the silent offscreen – only through subtitles. Having come from Saudi Arabia, she is stuck in the US because her father stole her identity papers. So homesick that she is considering drastic measures to get back home, she almost enlists in the military. But the US Army is suspicious and would not station her, a risk factor, anywhere near the Middle East. But there is a Baghdad in Arizona, too …
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- 0h 29m
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- English
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- 29 September 2024
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- Saudi Arabia, United States of America
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What Goes Up isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 29 September 2024. (Checked 12 November 2026.)
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Who directed What Goes Up?
What Goes Up (2024) was directed by Samar Al Summary.