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Wall Street Journal
20-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Wall Street Journal
Arts Calendar: Happenings for the Week of July 20
• 'Last Swim' (July 23): After receiving her A-level exam results, London teenager Ziba Soofi (Deba Hekmat) spends dawn to dusk with a group of friends while grappling with a life-altering decision. The film will make its U.S. debut with a one-night-only screening in Los Angeles followed by its release on video-on-demand platforms on July 25. • 'Fantastic Four: First Steps' (July 25): Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Joseph Quinn and Ebon Moss-Bachrach play the tight-knit super group tasked with defending Earth from a space god called Galactus.
The Guardian
06-04-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Last Swim review – rising star Deba Hekmat is magnetic in exam results day drama
Some actors take a while to capture your attention; others grab you by the eyes the moment you first encounter them. Kurdish-British actor Deba Hekmat falls into the second category. Her debut, a supporting role in Luna Carmoon's Hoard (2024), was electrifying – there's a semi-feral, unfettered physicality to her performance that chimes perfectly with Carmoon's maverick vision. In Sasha Nathwani's Berlin film festival prize-winning Last Swim, Hekmat gets the starring role of Ziba, a high-achieving A-level student whose carefully planned day of celebration with her friends is clouded by an ominous diagnosis and a question mark over the future. Sunny, soulful, if a little montage-heavy at times, this is a more conventional film. Hekmat's magnetic star quality, though, is unmistakable: she's a free and fascinating presence. In UK and Irish cinemas
