By Travis Johnson
To mark Refugee Week the Refugee Film Festival is playing in Melbourne and Sydney, presenting a range of refugee-themed films designed to educate audiences on the realities of this ongoing global humanitarian crisis. Featuring films of resistance, resilience and freedom, these incredible stories explore what it takes to find safety and make a new home.
Screenings are as follows:
Refugee Film Festival – Melbourne
Stop the Boats – June 19, 6.30pm @ Cinema Nova
Divisive rhetoric or legitimate policy goal? Told by people seeking asylum, Stop the Boats explores the ways in which this phrase has been used to justify a cruel and inhumane offshore policy.
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WATAN – June 20, 6.30pm @ Cinema Nova
A series of interwoven portraits of Syrians struggling to build lives in the camps and cities of Jordan. Watan paints a picture of real people, too often overshadowed by politics and debate.
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Human Flow – June 21, 6.30pm @ Cinema Nova
65 million people denied basic human rights and deprived of their security. In Human Flow, Ai Weiwei shines a light on the faces and voices behind this staggering statistic.
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Rifles or Graffiti – June 22, 6.30pm @ Cinema Nova
The Sahrawi people stage a nonviolent campaign to end Morocco’s 40-year occupation of their homeland: Western Sahara. Followed by a Q&A with the Australian Western Sahara Association, this documentary illuminates a conflict rarely featured on the evening news.
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Refugee Film Festival – Sydney
WATAN – June 21, 6.30pm @ Dendy Cinema Opera Quays
A series of interwoven portraits of Syrians struggling to build lives in the camps and cities of Jordan. Watan paints a picture of real people, too often overshadowed by politics and debate. Filmmaker James L Brown will be on hand for a post-screening Q&A.
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Stop the Boats – June 22, 6.30pm @ Dendy Cinema Opera Quays
Divisive rhetoric or legitimate policy goal? Told by people seeking asylum, Stop the Boats explores the ways in which this phrase has been used to justify a cruel and inhumane offshore policy.
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Human Flow – June 23, 6.30pm @ Dendy Cinema Opera Quays
65 million people denied basic human rights and deprived of their security. In Human Flow, Ai Weiwei shines a light on the faces and voices behind this staggering statistic.
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