After former soldier Haile (Jeremiah) makes it from Africa to an immigration centre in the UK, cool-headed immigration officer Wendy (Headey) decides to help him. Claustrophobic and low-key human drama with strong performances, showing the human cost of anti-immigration rhetoric. Powerful and timely Read more …
The Flood is a powerful reminder that, underneath the headlines, millions of individual stories are waiting to be told, and millions of humans are simply fighting to survive.
Strange that a film about something so real and vivid could feel so false.
Of course, it could happen. But it is all a little too smoothly tidied up.
In a culture where refugees are rarely shown any empathy in mainstream media, the balanced tone of ‘The Flood’ is exactly the kind of film that might actually change a few minds.
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