Chauka, Please Tell Us The Time

Chauka, Please Tell Us The Time (2017)

Released: 2017-06-16 Duration: 1hr 30min
Genres: Documentary
Rating 6.3

Overview

An urgent and powerful documentary, shot in a detention centre where asylum seekers trying to reach Australian shores are indefinitely detained. 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. Chauka, the name of the dreaded solitary confinement unit within the detention centre, was originally the name of a beautiful bird and symbol of the Manus Island. By interweaving dialogue with two Manusian men and shots of daily life on the island, the film gives a much-needed voice to Manus inhabitants, understandably distressed by the current situation. With marked restraint, the film exposes lives broken by shocking immigration policies.

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Additional Info

Budget $0.00
Revenue $0.00
Original Language en
Popularity 0.581

Directed By

Behrouz Boochani

Arash Kamali Sarvestani

TOP CAST

Behrouz Boochani
Behrouz Boochani

Behrouz Boochani

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