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Name Me Lawand

Language for the deaf Name Me LawandDirected by Edward LovelaceCertificate PG, 91 minutesReleased 7 July Lawand, a young Iraqi boy, has been written off. He is different, he apparently doesn’t want to communicate with others. No one in his home country can help him. And that’s that. Except, his parents don’t believe it. They are […]

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Name Me Lawand

Director – Edward Lovelace – 2022 – UK – Cert. PG – 91m **** 1/2 A family leave Iraq for the UK where their deaf son can receive education appropriate to his needs, only to find themselves falling foul of the UK’s anti-immigration policies – out in UK and Irish cinemas on Friday, July 7th, […]

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Sound Of Nomad:
Koryo Arirang

Director – Kim So-young (as Kim Jeong) – 2017 – South Korea – 87m **** How an indigenous theatre company kept the culture of the Koryo people alive after they were deported by the Soviet authorities from Far East Russia to Kazakhstan in 1937 – in the documentary season: Korean Film Nights: In Transit presented […]