WeвЂ™re not told exactly by what harrowing course of events gifted young musician Omar (El-Masry) has washed up in the outer Hebrides with a broken arm, far from his family still in Syria, but his dazed, phlegmatic response to his severe new surroundings tells us what we need to know.

Focusing on individual human foibles and yearnings rather than attempting any more universal statement on a global humanitarian crisis, Sharrock also places considerable faith in his excellent lead, British-Egyptian actor Amir El-Masry, to convey unspoken layers of trauma in his characterвЂ™s psychological makeup. Some will approach вЂњLimboвЂќ with a measure of justifiable skepticism, as a story of Middle Eastern and African refugees written by a white Scotsman, so the film is wise to take a micro perspective rather than a macro one. A droll romantic dramedy set in SpainвЂ™s Basque region, that film established SharrockвЂ™s international outlook, which is maintained in вЂњLimboвЂќ even as it circles home: His original screenplay draws on time spent living in Syria and filming in Algerian refugee camps. production from a filmmaker whose 2015 debut вЂњPikaderoвЂќ racked up miles on the festival circuit - even landing the top prize at Edinburgh - but was largely shrugged off by distributors. Even if its Croisette presence was theoretical, itвЂ™s still a profile-boosting starting point for a small-scale U.K. Premiering in TorontoвЂ™s Discovery strand, вЂњLimboвЂќ was to have been in the nixed Cannes official selection that was retrospectively announced in the summer.

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