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Reviews of Homeward, Sheep Without a Shepherd, House of Cardin, Spring Blossom and Fear of Rain
FRAUGHT: Homeward
LEO BOIX applauds an audacious, self-questioning film about grief, friendship and film-making
MARY CONWAY admires a brave and topical study of Armageddon that is, unfortunately, unable to come to a conclusion
ANDY HEDGECOCK, JAMES WALSH and JAMIE BRITTON review Hanging by a Wire, I Want Your Sex, The Pout-Pout Fish, and Rise of the Foot Soldier: Retribution
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The Bard hands out medals for his Edinburgh campaign and urges us to support The Men They Couldn’t Hang
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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