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WADJDA

Haifaa Al-Mansour  •  Saudi Arabia/Germany  • ​  2012
98 mins  •  HD  •   PG cert 
 ​In Arabic with English subtitles
 
The first-ever feature to be made entirely in Saudi Arabia or directed by a Saudi woman is a smart and funny tale of a sassy girl with her heart set on owning a bike. “A stunningly assured debut, a slyly subversive delight.” — Slate

A Man Called Ove
En man som heter Ove

Hannes Holm  •   Sweden  • ​  2015
116 mins  •  HD  •   M offensive language & suicide
In Swedish and Farsi, with English subtitles

Based on Fredrik Backman’s bestseller, this stirring comedy tracks the unlikely friendship between a neighbourhood grouch and his immigrant neighbours.

“Darkly funny, tragic and ultimately heart-warming”
– Entertainment Weekly
With: Rolf Lassgård (Ove), Bahar Pars (Parvaneh), Filip Berg (young Ove), Ida Engvoll (Sonja), Tobias Almborg (Patrick), Kals Wiljergård (Jimmy), Chatarina Larsson (Anita), Börje Lundberg (Rune), Stefan Gödicke (Ove’s father), Johan Widerberg (Vitskjortan), Anna-Lena Bergelin (journalist Lena)
Director: Hannes Holm
Producer: Annica Bellander, Nicklas Wikst Nicastro
Production co: Tre Vanner, Film I Vast, Nordisk Film, Swedish Television, Nordsvensk Filmunderhallning, Fante Film
Screenplay: Hannes Holm, based on the novel by Fredrik Backman
Photography: Goran Hallberg
Editor: Fredrik Morheden
​Music: Gaute Storaas

REVIEWS
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“Based on Swedish author Fredrik Backman’s bestselling novel, this feelgood black comedy tracks Ove (Rolf Lassgård), a grumpy, grieving mechanic and ‘nit-picking obstructionist’ who’s just lost his job. A string of Ove’s suicide attempts are thwarted by a series of comically mundane interruptions, which introduce him to new neighbour Parvaneh (Bahar Pars), a straight-talking pregnant Persian with two small children who adore him. Filip Berg plays Ove the young man, giving context to his brittleness in flashback form. It’s moving, then, to see his cantankerousness melted away by Parvaneh’s sunny good nature. By giving voice to blue-collar anxieties before working to resolve them, the film suggests that community can cure almost all ailments.”

— Simran Hans, The Observer

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“Holm’s adaptation is a darkly funny, tragic, and ultimately heartwarming tearjerker about the life of one lonely but extraordinary man.”

— Devan Coggan


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