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I’m a huge Kristen Stewart fan, Twilight films notwithstanding. My faith in her acting ability was somewhat justified this past winter with her Sundance film, Camp X-Ray, which ended up being one of my favorite films of the entire festival. In the film, Stewart plays a guard assigned to Guantanamo Boy where she must watch over detainees. However, while the rest of her squad mates overexert their power, she strikes a friendship with one of the detainees, played by Peyman Maadi (A Separation). As their secret friendship grows and they begin to learn more about one another, the lines separating the two becomes thinner.
Camp X-Ray will be in theaters and on VOD October 28th. You can read the film’s full synopsis below.
A young woman joins the military to be part of something bigger than herself and her small town roots. But she ends up as a new guard at Guantanamo Bay instead, where her mission is far from black and white. Surrounded by hostile jihadists and aggressive squadmates, she strikes up an unusual friendship with one of the detainees. A story of two people, on opposite sides of a war, struggling to find their way through the ethical quagmire of Guantanamo Bay. And in the process, they form an unlikely bond that changes them both.