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\u201cYou don\u2019t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back,\u201d wrote James Baldwin in Giovanni\u2019s Room<\/i>. The films here deal with this vital and fragile notion of belonging to somewhere. A family, a country, a safe space you can find in the smallest details (a reassuring hue, like in the melodrama The Color of the Room<\/i>), or unlikely setting (a goal where a football player can daydream, like in the colourful Now. Here<\/i>).\u00a0<\/p>\n
Homes can seem too familiar, limited, and precarious for the characters of After Dawn<\/i> and Modern Speed<\/i>, but they can still provide poignant surprises for people in search for themselves. In The Bath<\/i>, summer holidays are an all-too brief respite, a temporary shelter before growing up, even in the ugliest of places.\u00a0<\/p>\n
And finally, with its vivid depiction of the deportation of Baltic people in the 1940s, Purga <\/i>echoes the everlasting plight of displaced and exiled persons in the world, then and now.<\/p>\n
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