MARIA DUARTE recommends a remarkable study of the friendship between a Palestinian and a Pakistani, broken by a hostile state
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FRAUGHT: Homeward
MATTHEW HAWKINS rakes through un-fancy words and flair-free summaries to find who and what might be flamboyant
PETER MASON is exhilarated by an exciting, well-considered and historically minded tribute to the great Trinidadian instrument
Reducing historical lives to ‘male’ and ‘female’ roles, we lose the nuance of those lives and a clearer understanding of past societies, suggests CLAIRE ISABELLA GILMOUR
CHRIS SEARLE relishes the genius of pianist Alexander Hawkins, his many ensembles, and his new album
Homeward
Directed by Nariman Aliev
★★★
THE stark difference — generational, religious and patriotic — between a Crimean Tatar father and teenage son are explored in this intriguing debut feature by Nariman Aliev.
Mustafa (Akhtem Seitablayev) insists that his son Alim (Remzi Bilyalov) accompanies him to take the body of the latter’s dead older brother Nazim from Kyiv back to Crimea to be buried alongside his mother. Mustafa bans Nazim’s wife from attending the Muslim funeral, locking her up in a closet to stop her.
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