Neil Baker (@neilcinerama.bsky.social)

Foreigner (Fantasia Film Festival) review – discussions on assimilation vs. multiculturalism sit at the heart of Safai’s coming of age horror Safai's Foreigner is undoubtedly at its strongest when exploring the psychological and social pressures surrounding Yasi as she attempts to carve a new identity based on sitcoms, peer influence, and magazines, offering us a portrait of assimilation versus multiculturalism in a world lurching towards the former, that is both urgent and timely. Finding your place in a new high school is a bewildering maze of uncertain choices, decisions and risks, but when that new high school is also in a new country thousands of miles away from the place you once called home, that maze can become a prison of endless dead ends. https://cineramafilm.com/2025/08/02/foreigner-fantasia-film-festival-review/