This was one of the more promising British debuts of recent years; there's an overall integrity to the style and content, and i was pleased that in such a xenophobic anti-asylum environment as has existed in Britain for far too long now (some papers here are obsessed with front page scapegoating), here was a film with a sympathetic but not too sentimentalised or manipulative view of refugees and asylum seekers. I agree Dina Korzun was excellent (and all the better for my wife being called Dinah). I also found it grounded in reality, a concern for proper characterisation, an eye for landscape, a certain understated sense of poetry, humanity and optimism- pretty much as you say in your review! 

I thought My Summer of Love was a small step backwards.