"a Heartsore Portrait of Immigrant Unrest"

Variety
  • Archive - Festival 39
  • Director: Adura Onashile
  • United Kingdom 2023
  • 87 minutes
  • English
  • Subtitles in Hebrew

Eleven-year-old Ama and her mother, Grace, take solace in the gentle but isolated world they obsessively create. But Ama's thirst for life and her need to grow and develop, challenges the rules of their insular world and gradually forces Grace to reckon with a past she struggles to forget.

Adura Onashile's debut feature is an impressively delicate story about trauma and coming-of-age. The film takes us to Glasgow, Scotland and - based on the filmmaker's own experience with her mother - offers a “rewarding study of alienation that refracts the immigrant experience through a refreshingly different lens” (Deadline).

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  • Director Adura Onashile
  • Production Rosie Crerar, Ciara Barry
  • Script Adura Onashile
  • Cinematography Tasha Bac
  • Editing Stella Heath Keir
  • Music Ré Olunuga
  • Festivals Sundance, Glasgow, Göteborg
  • Actors Déborah Lukumuena, Le’Shantey Bonsu, Danny Sapani, Liana Turner
  • Source New Europe Film Sales