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Leaving to Remain
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Leaving to Remain (12A)
Directed by Mira Erdevicki
SET against the backdrop of Britain’s hardening immigration policy this fly-on-the-wall documentary centres on three Roma living in Britain and shows the impact of Covid and Brexit on their lives while aiming to change people’s prejudicial view of them.
Five years in the making, director Mira Erdevicki follows Ondrej Olah, Denisa Gannon and Petr Torak from Slovakia and the Czech Republic who agreed to film themselves, mostly via mobile phones, once the country went into lockdown.
The end result is an intimate but captivating portrait of three people who escaped racism back home for a life full of possibilities and without discrimination and racial prejudice where they are valued for their actions and the people they are, and not their race.
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