Beyond the Known World (2017)

An annoying couple embark on an unlikely wild goose chase through India in an effort to find their missing19-year-old daughter, and even though they are "beyond the known world", they succeed in encountering only people as abrasive and unlikeable as themselves as their investigations gradually reveal their daughter has wandered into the Indian mountains in thrall to ideas about the impermanence of river waters.

★☆☆☆☆

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Lion (2016)

A man who was adopted as a child lies on a couch in Tasmania and scours Google Earth for the home in rural India where he was brought up, in this deeply personal and deeply moving movie treatment of Saroo Brierley's 25 years' lost, a threadbare mouse-click of a story greatly benefitted by National Geographic-style photography, a score that swells at all the right emotional moments and the wonderful performance of Sunny Pawar.

★★★★☆

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