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    The Hundred Foot Journey

    The Hundred Foot Journey, plays out against a physically short distance, yet the distance that keeps the people involved apart, is vast. The movie tells the story of a meeting between two cooking cultures:  Indian and French. Both are proud of their cooking traditions. An Indian family, displaced some time before to England by political violence in their home country, seeks out a new life across the channel in Europe.  A chance car breakdown takes them to an idyllic French town; where they find the food ingredients with the flavours they are seeking. Their arrival sparks a competition between cooking cultures and rival restaurants.  Four characters are at the heart…

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    Crossing Over is a 2009 American independent film drama exploring the lives of illegal immigrants attempting to “cross the border” literally and metaphorically to achieve legal status in the United States.   The film deals with the border, document fraud, the asylum and green card process, work-site enforcement, naturalization, the office of counter-terrorism and the clash of cultures.  The film highlights the dehumanising effects of border controls on both those seeking to cross the border and those involved in maintaining them.  It also explores the crossing of cultural boundaries and the real and psychological conflicts that can result. Harrison Ford stars as ICE Special Agent Max Brogan,  Ray Liotta plays Cole Frankel and…

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