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SUMMARY:Film screening 'Chauka\, please tell us the time' and Q&amp\;A - A
 rash Kamali Sarvestani\, director
DTSTART:20180116T180000Z
DTEND:20180116T203000Z
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CONTACT:Romy Schirrmeister
DESCRIPTION:In collaboration with _Amnesty International Cambridge City Gr
 oup_ we will be screening *'Chauka\, please tell us the time'*. The film g
 ives an insight into life in the Australian off-shore detention centres fo
 r asylum seekers and refugees in Papua New Guinea. The film screening (90m
 in) will be followed by a Q&A with the film's Director & Producer Arash Ka
 vali Sarvestani.\n\n*Synopsis:*\nSince 2013 the Australian Government has 
 been incarcerating refugees and asylum seekers arriving by boat on Manus I
 sland and Nauru. The Manus Island compound currently detains a refugee who
  is also a journalist. This individual strives to gather information for a
 n Australian journalist visiting the island and who wants to publish an ar
 ticle in the press about events in the detention facility. At the center o
 f his investigation is a solitary confinement cell called Chauka\, which i
 s like a prison inside the prison. Some of the detainees speak to the refu
 geejournalist\nabout their horrific experiences in the camp -especially in
  Chauka. At the same time\, the visiting Australian journalist is investig
 ating what Chauka means for the local Manusians. It appears that Chauka is
  the name of a bird which can be found only on Manus Island\; it is the sy
 mbol of the island and decorates its flag. She speaks to some of the local
 s. Both the detained journalist and the visiting Australian journalist cri
 tically analyse different aspects the situation. We encounter first-hand e
 xperiences of what life inside the camp means\, how it is governed\, the p
 olitical games between Australia and PNG on this matter\, the way Manusian
 s are treated by Australians\, and the way locals think about the existenc
 e of the camp on their island.\n\n*Arash Kamali Sarvestani* is an Iranian 
 Dutch Filmmaker and Video Artist. Arash was born in Tehran\, Iran on 1981.
  He has studied Cinema at the Art University of Tehran. In 2009 he moved t
 o the Netherlande to\nstudy Video Art in Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amste
 rdam. He graduated in 2013 and has been living in The Netherlands since th
 en. During a workshop in 2015\, Arash came up with the idea of making a fi
 lm from inside a refugee camp\, using only mobile phone cameras. After two
  years of investigation into refugees kept by the Australian government in
  Manus and Nauru\, Arash found Behrooz Boochani who was (and still is) det
 ained in Manus camp. Arash's first feature film “Chauka\, Please tell us
  the time” is a result of their cooperation.\n\nPlease register "here":h
 ttps://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/film-screening-chauka-please-tell-us-the-tim
 e-and-qa-tickets-41536824761?utm_term=eventname_text
LOCATION: Room SG1\, Alison Richard Building\, 7 West Road\, Cambridge\, C
 B3 9DT
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