This Turkish arthouse drama from writer-director Pelin Esmer follows two disparate people attempting to escape their pasts, and finding each other. Originally made in 2012 and premiering at that year’s Toronto International Film Festival, The Watchtower now gets a belated UK home release through Network Releasing.  Haunted by a tragic incident from

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Promise opens with Hajar (Lara Sawalha), a young middle-eastern woman, arriving at the house of Sarah (Rebecca Callard) and Abe (Nabil Elouahabi), a couple seemingly on the rocks. It’s not made explicitly clear what’s happening to start with, but after glimpses of a pregnancy pamphlet, Hajar’s early-morning vomiting and Sarah’s

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