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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A young gay man from an affluent family faces deportation after a shooting incident. If returned to his homeland of Uganda, he faces severe anti-homosexual persecution. As his case is taken to the courts, his Nigerian attorney (Kenneth Okolie, The Royal Hibiscus Hotel) also finds himself struggling to define his own cultural identity and be able to live the life he chooses with an American girl (Dawn Halfkenny, Atlanta), regardless of his family's...
2) The verdict
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
An alcoholic lawyer stumbles upon one last chance to redeem himself by taking on a controversial court case against seemingly insurmountable opposition.
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Closed John Lyshitski likes to steal cars, has a weed problem, and has been in Illinois' Rossmore State Penitentiary so many times, he knows the entire population of both staff and cons by name. Cursed with being in the wrong place, at the wrong time, in possession of the wrong car, he's a repeat offender who has been deemed a lost cause. When the heartless judge, who has been behind most of his sentences, goes to the big court house in the sky, John...
4) Saint Omer
Series
Criterion collection volume 1212
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
Français
Description
Bringing a documentarian's sense of open-ended inquiry to her first narrative feature, writer-director Alice Diop constructs a morally and emotionally layered courtroom drama unlike any other. When she travels to Saint-Omer, France, to attend the trial of a young Senegalese woman accused of murdering her infant daughter, novelist Rama finds herself shaken to the core by a case that proves to have profound resonances with her own life. Interweaving...
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