Love Child

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Love Child

2019

1h 52m

Documentary

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The filmmaker follows Leila and Sahand as they escape from Tehran with their illegitimate son and travel to Turkey for refuge.

Chris Waywell

Time Out

11/10/2020

5/5

Its great achievement is to present the faceless and grotesque within a domestic context, never allowing the simple pleasures of life to escape the shadow of statelessness and fear.

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Kevin Maher

The Times (UK)

11/07/2020

4/5

Stranger, or at least more compelling, than fiction.

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Leila Latif

Little White Lies

11/06/2020

4/5

A compelling story with tragic relevance for our time.

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Carey-Ann Pawsey

Orca Sound

02/21/2021

3/5

Director Eva Mulvad follows the family everywhere and over the course of years. Her camera captures all from video chats with friends at home to Mani having a meltdown.

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Edward Porter

Sunday Times (UK)

11/09/2020

4/5

The family's new life in Turkey is quite comfortable in some ways, but every new bureaucratic tussle over their immigration status causes anxiety - and the more we get to know the three of them, the more we care about their fate.

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Alistair Harkness

Scotsman

11/06/2020

4/4

[A] thoroughly engrossing portrait of resilience and hope as personal issues, local complications and global political shifts repeatedly challenge their simple desire to have what so many others take for granted.

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Sigrid Jonsson Dyekjær

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Lea Glob

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Synopsis

The filmmaker follows Leila and Sahand as they escape from Tehran with their illegitimate son and travel to Turkey for refuge.

Director: Eva Mulvad
Producer: Sigrid Jonsson Dyekjær
Screenwriter: Eva Mulvad
Production Co: Danish Documentary Production Aps
Genre: Documentary
Original Language: English
Runtime: 1h 52m