Please join us at the Library Centre for the screening of Chauka, Please Tell Us the Time, a film of Behrouz Boochani and Arash Kamali Sarvestani. This film is a powerful depiction of Australia's harsh treatment of refugees and asylum seekers on the offshore detention camps. There will also be a Q&A facilitated by Bruno Lettieri, hosting Janet Galbraith and Behrouz Boochani in conference from Manus Island.
Bios:
Behrouz Boochani is a Kurdish journalist, writer and film producer. He was born in western Iran and has been held in the Australian-run Manus Island detention centre since 2013. Boochani is the co-director, along with Dutch-Iranian film maker Arash Kamali Sarvestani, of the film Chauka, Please Tell Us the Time, which has played at numerous international film festivals. He has also published numerous articles about the plight of refugees held by the Australian government on Manus Island, and won several awards, and his book, No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison (translated by Omid Tofighian) has won many prizes, including the Victorian Prize for Literature, the Victorian Premier's Prize for Nonfiction in January 2019 and the NSW Special Prize for Non-Fiction in May 2019.
Janet Galbraith is a writer and poet of Scottish ancestry born on the stolen lands of the Waveroo and Dhudhuroa. She is founder of Writing Through Fences, a project that collaborates with and resources artists and writers incarcerated by Australia's immigration detention industry. Galbraith is a long-time collaborator and friend of Behrouz Boochani and participated in the film Chauka, Please Tell Us the Time, by film-makers Behrouz Boochani and Arash Sarvestani. Galbraith's collection of poetry, re-membering is published by Walleah Press.
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