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Shayda

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date July 17 2024
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Director – Noora Niasari – 2023 – Australia – Cert. 15 – 117m ***** An Iranian mother and her young daughter, holed up in a women’s refuge in Australia, live in fear of the girl’s estranged father who wants to take them both back to Iran – out in UK cinemas on Friday, August 2nd […]

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Shayda

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date July 16 2024
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Muslim limbo ShaydaDirected by Noora NiasariCertificate 15, 117 minutesReleased 19 July An Iranian woman, Shayda (Zar Amir Ebrahimi from Holy Spider, Ali Abassi, 2022), is staying with her young daughter Mona (Selina Zahednia) in a woman’s refuge house in Brisbane run by Joyce (Leah Purcell). Shayda’s husband Hossain (Osamah Sami) came to Australia with her […]

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Opponent
(Motståndaren)

Director – Milad Alami – 2023 – Sweden, Norway – Cert. 15 – 119m ***1/2 Two asylum seekers – an Iranian pro-wrestler and his pianist wife – are confronted with inhospitable Scandiniavian hotel accommodation and state bureaucracy – out in UK cinemas on Friday, April 12th. An ominous pulsing, thumping soundtrack. Wearing training kit, an […]

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Love Life
(LOVE LIFE)

Director – Koji Fukada – 2022 – Japan, France – Cert. 12a – 123m ***** A tragedy involving a woman’s six-year-old child, abandoned by his birth father, wreaks havoc on her already strained relationship with the husband she has recently married – on BFI Player from Monday, November 6th following its release in UK cinemas […]

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Paris Memories
(Revoir Paris)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date August 3 2023
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(Revoir Paris)
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Director – Alice Winocour – 2022 – France – Cert. 15 – 105m **** A woman tries to recall her memories of a Paris terrorist attack – out in UK cinemas on Friday, Aug 4th Were it not for a singularly unconvincing sex scene (as in, why are these two characters having sex?) about ten […]

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Return to Seoul
(Retour à Séoul)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date May 2 2023
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(Retour à Séoul)
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Director – Davy Chou – 2022 – France, Belgium, Germany, South Korea – Cert. 15 – 118m ****1/2 A woman born in South Korea and fostered by parents in France unexpectedly returns to the land of her birth – on MUBI from Friday, July 7th Although it looks at first glance like a South Korean […]

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The Mauritanian

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date February 28 2021
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Director – Kevin Macdonald – 2021 – UK – Cert. 15 – 129m **** A pro bono lawyer defends a post-9/11 terrorist suspect in Guantánamo Bay against his US Army prosecutor – plays Curzon Home Cinema rental from Monday, October 4th Based on a true story, this kicks off in Mauritania, North West Africa in […]