LONDON RIVER .World Cinema

On July 7, 2005, four Muslim assassins, traveling on London’s public transport during morning rush hour, activate a series of bombs. They kill 56 people and injure many others on three underground trains and one double-decker bus. Rochid Bouchareb’s LONDON RIVER tells the emotional story of on unlikely friendship that develops between Mrs. Sommers (Brendo Blethyn), a prejudiced Christian mother, and Ousmane, a Muslim father (Sotigui Kouyate, 2009 Berlin Silver Bear winner as best actor), who search for their children following the attacks. Though they differ in religious beliefs and cultural background, Ousmane and Mrs. Sommers shore the common hope of finding their children olive. When they arrive in the British capitol, they discover truths about their children that stun them.