In the age of post-Brexit Britain, heightened racism, aggression towards immigrants and gentrification taking over cities, it’s no wonder that feelings of discontent continue to soar across the board – the system is broken. A state of affairs that filmmaker Beru Tessema channelled into drama short Lions, his thought provoking portrait focussed on two very different sides of this story. A young immigrant family whose application for asylum is rejected and are forced into subpar living conditions unintentionally come into conflict with a pair of disgruntled British men who have been forced out of their homes and see taking advantage of those who equally have nothing themselves as their only route to survival. Placing us in the heart of a conflicted area, an inner London estate where the brutalist architecture and deprived streets and stairways play their own role, Lions is at heart a story about understanding and acceptance which...
- 12/1/2023
- by Sarah Smith
- Directors Notes
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