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Fusing genres in a film project can be tricky business, as many failed and underwhelming cinematic examples have illustrated in recent years. And now writer-director Hisham Zaman can add his latest offering to that list. This absurdist comedy/romantic drama/coming of age tale profiles the stressful, uncertain lives of a group of teenage refugees who live in a government-run asylum camp in a remote region of Norway thats perpetually covered in snow and frequently visited by wandering reindeer. They all nervously await their 18th birthdays, when theyll be deported to their native countries, no matter how much theyve come to embrace their newly adopted Nordic homeland. These conditions consequently yield a strange way of life, one riddled with...