A beautifully woven and uplifting tapestry of wonderful absurdist humour alongside heartache and loss, this is the fish-out-of-water story of Syrian musician Omar and three other asylum-seekers marking time on a remote Scottish island while their applications are assessed.
On a WA wheat farm in 1968, Ed (Xavier Samuel) and Paddy (Clarence Ryan) are best mates despite steep social inequalities, but new laws change their world. Roger Mason’s dreamlike score complements visuals that pay homage to Terrence Malick.
Banned from making movies in his home country, acclaimed Iranian director Jafar Panahi (The White Balloon) responded by mounting cameras within a taxicab and driving around Tehran for a day picking up passengers, supposedly at random. The result is both a love-letter to cinema and a revealing look at the country and its people.
