‘The Lion at My Back’ Review: Two Women Forge a Cross-Cultural Friendship in a Bleak Cyprus-Set Drama Haunted by the Threat of Violence

The follow-up to Greek Cypriot director Tonia Mishiali’s debut ‘Pause,’ this Karlovy Vary premiere centers on the growing bond between a recovering addict and sex-worker and a teenage Senegalese refugee.

‘The Lion at My Back’ Review: An Asylum Seeker and a Former Drug Addict Face the World in Different Ways in a Promising but Pat Redemption Tale

Juxtaposing the story of a young asylum seeker with that of a former drug addict, “The Lion at My Back” highlights the way in which perceived hierarchies of suffering feel…