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LIMBO

By Ben SHARROCK

Drama - Completed 2020

Ben Sharrock’s second feature LIMBO is a funny and poignant cross-cultural satire, that subtly sews together the hardship and hope of the refugee experience.

Festivals
& Awards

Festival de Cannes 2020

Official Selection

Toronto - TIFF 2020

Discovery

San Sebastian FF 2020

New Directors TCM Youth Award

Cannes 2020

Cannes Label

- Year of production
- 2020
- Genres
- Drama, Comedy
- Countries
- Unknown, UNITED KINGDOM
- Languages
- ENGLISH, ARABIC
- Duration
- 103 mn
- Director(s)
- Ben SHARROCK
- Writer(s)
- Ben SHARROCK
- Cast
- Amir EL MASRY, Vikash BHAI, Sidse BABETT KNUDSEN, Ola OREBIYI , Kwabena ANSAH
- Producer(s)
- Irune GURTUBAI (CARAVAN CINEMA LTD), Angus LAMONT
- Synopsis
- Omar is a promising young musician. Separated from his Syrian family, he is stuck on a remote Scottish island awaiting the fate of his asylum request. Due to the plaster-cast on his arm, Omar cannot play his oud and instead wanders the epic landscapes searching for answers to a complex past and daunting future.
  
  He may be stuck, but he is not alone. Omar and his new flatmates attend hilariously misjudged ‘cultural awareness’ classes, hosted by eccentric locals. They binge the ‘Friends’ boxset, debating the unanswerable question of whether Ross and Rachel were on a break and Freddie Mercury-obsessed Farhad tries to convince Omar to participate in the local open mic night.
  
  LIMBO deploys pitch perfect wit and crisp observation to shine a light on the hearts and lives of those at the centre of a crisis that most of us only experience through headlines.

LIMBO

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