MARIA DUARTE recommends a remarkable study of the friendship between a Palestinian and a Pakistani, broken by a hostile state
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The indifference of strangers
MARIA DUARTE recommends a heartbreaking film about two young children from Africa, who must endure the inhumanity of Europe’s attitude to refugees
ALONE TOGETHER: (Left) Lokita (Joely Mbundi) and Tori (Pablo Schils)
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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
Tori and Lokita (15)
Directed by Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne
★★★★
WINNER of the 75th Anniversary Prize at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, the Dardenne brothers’ latest film about the struggles of two young African migrants battling to survive in Belgium humanises the plight of so-called “unaccompanied foreign minors” in this powerful and moving drama.
The film follows adolescent teen Lokita (Joely Mbundi) as she attempts to obtain residence papers, having to prove that 11-year-old Tori (Pablo Schils) — with whom she has travelled all the way from Africa — is her younger brother.
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