Asia Premiere

The ability of children to understand and adapt is often underestimated and that is an idea explored in Sweet Lime as a ten-year-old girl named Amra sits in the back seat of her mother’s car on the drive from collecting her aunt Hawra from the airport. She is alternately ignored and left to listen to the women discuss marriage woes and family gossip or fussed over because she is too “vulnerable.” At a critical moment, during a pause on their journey, she discovers a tragic secret relating to one of the adults and faces a weighty choice as to how to handle it… [Jason MAHER]