Limbo

Ben Sharrock

Filmfestival

Wed 15 Mar 23 - Thu 27 Apr 23

15 Mar

20:00 - 22:00

Turnhout

UGC

Past event
21 Apr

19:00 - 20:44

Festival

The Roxy Theatre

Past event
21 Apr

20:00 - 21:44

Turnhout

UGC

Past event
24 Apr

20:00 - 21:44

Turnhout

UGC

Past event
25 Apr

17:00 - 18:44

Brugge

Cinema Lumière

Past event
25 Apr

19:00 - 20:44

Festival

The Roxy Theatre

Past event
27 Apr

20:00 - 21:44

Brugge

Cinema Lumière

Past event

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.

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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