BOSTON (AP) – Among the many people forced to come to terms with the death and destruction caused by the Boston Marathon bombings were Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s high school friends.
Three years later, two of Tsarnaev’s friends from high school are getting ready to premiere a short film they made to capture the range of emotions they felt after learning the 19-year-old had played a major role in an attack that killed three people and injured more than 260.
The 12-minute film, called “Jahar,” for Tsarnaev’s Americanized nickname, is set to premiere Saturday at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York City.
Written by Henry Hayes and Zolan Kanno-Youngs – classmates of Tsarnaev’s at Cambridge Rindge and Latin School – the film captures the feelings they and other friends had in the days after the bombings: from shock to bewilderment to anger.
Hayes, who also directed the film, said that he tried to write something by himself immediately in the immediate aftermath of the bombings, but that “the emotions were just too raw.”