Anchored by a charismatic cast, Amartei Armar's debut feature shines an empathetic light on the need for alternate families in a land fractured by catch-up capitalism.
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Courtesy of AKA Entertainment Elements of “Oliver Twist” are given a West African update in “Our Time Will Come,” an atmospheric and emotionally absorbing feature debut from writer-director Amartei Armar, who thankfully cares too much for his orphaned characters to torture them (and us) with unending miserabilism. Beginning as a road trip, then shifting to a punishing vision of hardscrabble life in Accra, the film blossoms into a story of irrevocable bonds forged out of shared adversity. Handsomely shot by John Kwame Markin and anchored by an adult-sized performance from teen Idrissu Tontie Jr., “Our Time Will Come” (presented in Marrakech’s 2025 Atlas Workshops as “Vagabonds”) plays with certain narrative conventions in such distinctive ways that it’s likely to find a welcoming home wherever it travels following its Locarno premiere.
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