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CHAUKA, PLEASE TELL US THE TIME Q&A - BFI London Film Festival 2017
Director Arash Kamali Sarvestani joined Christine Bardsley for a Q&A session in advance of the BFI London Film Festival Screening of Chauka, Please Tell Us the Time.
An urgent and compelling account of life inside a detention centre for asylum seekers trying to reach Australia. Secretly shot on a mobile phone by Iranian journalist Behrouz Boochani while detained on Manus, in Papua New Guinea, the film is a collaboration with Dutch-Iranian filmmaker Arash Kamali Sarvestani. Boochani recounts, via the testimonies of fellow inmates, the abuse and violence inflicted and the precarious state of limbo they find themselves in.