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Limbo

Ben Sharrock
Filmfestival
Wed 15 Mar 23 - Thu 27 Apr 23

Wat als je alleen maar mag wachten? 'Limbo' is een hartverscheurend portret van vier vluchtelingen die gestrand zijn in Schotland. De film toont een gedurfde kijk op de wereld, maar is tegelijk zachtaardig, lachwekkend en intiem. 

On a remote Scottish island, four young refugees await the answer to their asylum application. In the meantime, Farhad from Afghanistan, Omar from Syria and the brothers Abedi and Wasef from Kenya are not allowed to perform paid labour. They can only wait for the official message whether they are allowed to stay in the country or not. They wait. And wait. And wait.

 

Ben Sharrock’s film about refugees waiting for their asylum application on a godforsaken Scottish island is extremely funny, deliciously absurd, poetic and very rare. Some scenes make you crack up, while others put such a lump in your throat that days later you cannot unsee them. The characters are multidimensional and anything but stereotypical.

direction
Ben Sharrock
cast
Sidse Babett Knudsen, Kenneth Collard, Amir El-Masry
duration
104 min
year
2020
country
United Kingdom of Great Britain
language
Engels, Arabisch
Subtitles
Nederlands

A film as sweet as it is sad, as pertinent as it is absurd.

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