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Limbo  2020
Director:  Ben Sharrock
Producer:
  Irune Gurtubai and Angus Lamont
Art Director:
  Andy Drummond
Editor:
  Karel Dolak and Lucia Zucchetti
Music:
  Hutch Demouilpied
Screenplay:
  Ben Sharrock
Director of Photography:
  Nick Cooke
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Cast:
spacer1 Sidse Babett Knudsen
spacer1 Amir El-Masry
spacer1 Kenneth Collard
spacer1 Lewis Gribben
spacer1 Grace Chilton
spacer1 Vikash Bhai
spacer1 Cameron Fulton
spacer1 Silvie Furneaux
spacer1 Kais Nashif
spacer1 Ola Orebiyi
spacer1 Kwabena Ansah
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spacer1 Sidse Babett Knudsen spacer1 Amir El-Masry spacer1 Kenneth Collard
spacer1 Lewis Gribben spacer1 Grace Chilton spacer1 Vikash Bhai
spacer1 Cameron Fulton spacer1 Silvie Furneaux spacer1 Kais Nashif
spacer1 Ola Orebiyi spacer1 Kwabena Ansah spacer1
spacer1 Sidse Babett Knudsen spacer1 Amir El-Masry
spacer1 Kenneth Collard spacer1 Lewis Gribben
spacer1 Grace Chilton spacer1 Vikash Bhai
spacer1 Cameron Fulton spacer1 Silvie Furneaux
spacer1 Kais Nashif spacer1 Ola Orebiyi
spacer1 Kwabena Ansah spacer1

Synopsis:
A refreshingly different voice in UK cinema, Scottish writer/director Sharrock won the Michael Powell Award at Edinburgh Film Festival for his debut Pikadero, a quirky love story shot in the Basque language. Limbo has a similar singularity, at once deadpan comedy and also poignant tale of a group of refugees stuck, pending asylum, on a weather-beaten Hebridean outpost, the Uists.

Sharrock cites Elia Suleiman as an inspiration and here too we see a deep humanism behind the wry gaze and a desire to move beyond cross cultural narratives of simple reconciliation. Rising UK star Amir El-Masry impresses as Omar, one of four men in this ‘limbo’ together, who find a bond in the shared strangeness of their situation and distance from their own countries and families.

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