![]() ![]() But Omar becomes closest with Farhad (Vikash Bhai), who’s from Afghanistan. Omar, handsome but sullen, with soft, brooding eyes, has three roommates: Abedi (Kwabena Ansah) and Wasef (Ola Orebiyi) are from Ghana and Nigeria respectively, though they have presented themselves as brothers, hoping to strengthen their chances of getting asylum-a gentle metaphor for the way two people desperate to find a better life can become a kind of family. Even so, one anxiety unifies them: no one wants to, or can afford to, be sent back. But they’re also outsiders to one another, a group of lost souls coming from a jumble of different cultures and backgrounds. To the islanders, all of the men are outsiders, strangers from other lands. Some of the locals do welcome them with well-meaning but misguided enthusiasm (by offering, for instance, a clumsy “cultural awareness” course that’s designed to indoctrinate the newcomers to western ways but succeeds only in bewildering them), while others, particularly the local teenagers, inflict indifferent hostility. Their housing, a nest of nondescript little cottages, bears a handmade sign that reads REFUGEES WELCOME with a heart appended. ![]() Limbo, the second feature from Scottish director Ben Sharrock, is about people who happen to be refugees, a group of young men from various nations who have been given temporary shelter on a remote Scottish island as they wait to see if they’ve been granted asylum. Though some filmmakers might insist you can make a film about a hot-button issue like the refugee crisis, in the end you can only make films about people. ![]()
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