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Behrouz

MIGRA MOVIES

Before the screening, there will be a 15-minute presentation about academic freedom and Dr. Djalali and after the screening there will be a comments and discussion with the Behrouz Boochani and Simon V. Kurian on zoom. The film is in English and there are no subtitles.

SAR Student Advocacy Seminars at University of Linköping is a group of students from the Ethnic and Migration Masters Programme who have the opportunity to take on a case of one scholar facing unjust restrictions, prosecution, or imprisonment. They chose to campaign for Dr. Djalali, a Swedish-Iranian citizen, who has been imprisoned in Iran since 2016. This event aims to bring attention to Dr. Djalali and call for his release.

SAR Student Advocacy Seminars and MigraMovies believes this film highlights the need for academic freedom as Boochani and Dr. Djalali had been persecuted by Iran but questions the role of states that supposedly support freedom of speech.

The film tells the story of award-winning Kurdish journalist and writer Behrouz Boochani. He fled the Iranian regime, seeking asylum in Australia in 2013, only to be exiled to the offshore immigration detention centre on Manus Island, in Papua New Guinea. It follows Behrouz as he navigates life in detention, and leads the resistance to indefinite detention. And finally his life in Christchurch, New Zealand as a free man, after being held for over six years by the Australian and PNG governments on Manus Island. Behrouz’s book ’No Friend but the Mountains’ written while in detention on his mobile phone has become one of the most celebrated books in Australia in recent times, winning among others the most prestigious literary award, the 2019 Victorian Prize for Literature.

”I see this film as a story about how we exposed a brutal system through writing and creating”, said Behrouz Boochani. “This film is about a long struggle to expose and challenge a system which is designed to dehumanise people who flee dictatorship and war.”

• Speltid: 90 min
• Språk: Engelska
• Undertext: No subs
• Genre: Dokumentär
• Regi: Simon V. Kurian
• Medverkande: Behrouz Boochani
• Land: Australien