Love Child is a remarkably intimate documentary, filmed over six years, which tells the story of a refugee family from Iran and their years spent in limbo in Turkey waiting for the UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees) to process their application for refugee status.
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Despite its PG certificate this latest version, which has a slightly different take on Frances Hodgson Burnett’s classic tale, is perfectly suitable for adults.
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This beautifully made and very affecting film is a labour of love by its director François Ozon, who has dreamed of making it ever since he read the novel on which it is based, when he was a teenager.
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Moving a long way away from the 19th century vampire tale on which this is based, writer/director Emily Harris in her solo feature film debut has adapted the story into one of female sexual suppression and discovery.
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This film in many ways mirrors the director’s own experience, in that when Hong Khaou was a baby his Cambodian Chinese family fled from the Khmer rouge in Cambodia, initially to Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City).
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15 year old Rocks (Bukky Bakray) is a sociable East End teenager, who enjoys her school and her diverse circle of friends, including her bestie Sumaya (Kosar Ali).
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Although borrowing its title from Victor Hugo’s novel, this is a contemporary film, set in Montfermeil suburb north of Paris, where Hugo wrote and set part of his story and where many members of France’s socially deprived black and Muslim immigrant communities now live.
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Misbehaviour is in the tradition of other cinema versions of idiosyncratically British events in our social and political history such as The Full Monty, Calendar Girls and Pride.
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The film describes itself as being inspired by Peter Carey’s Booker prize winning novel and admits in an opening statement that this is not the true history of the Kelly gang.
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Directed by Peter Cattaneo of The Full Monty fame this is very much a feel-good movie. Another of those films based on real events, this time it’s the story of the first ever choir created by military wives.
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