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“A chilling portrayal of the practice of dawn raids on asylum seekers. Wisely, though, Trouble Sleeping was less of a general story and more of a personal one, focusing on a small group of refugees in the capital trying to make new lives and deal with bureaucracy as well as their pasts. A powerful story emerged with particularly heart-rending performances by Alia Alzougbi and Hassan Naama as two Palestinians sharing a horrible secret; the scene where she revealed the trauma she had suffered was horrifying. This was an important film: lives like these are going on around us all the time, right here, and they need to be portrayed. Andrea Mullaney, The Scotsman
