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Special Screening
Screening followed by a Q&A session via skype, with the directors, Behrouz Boochani in Manus Island and Arash Kamali Sarvestani in London. |
This extraordinary film was shot inside Manus Island Detention Centre by Behrouz Boochani, the highly celebrated author of No Friend but the Mountain.
Made with Iranian filmmaker Arash Kamali Sarvestani, it was shot clandestinely by Boochani using a smuggled smartphone.
Behrouz Boochani has recently been awarded the Victorian Premier Literary award for Non-fiction and a special award and is a non-resident Visiting Scholar at the Sydney Asia Pacific Migration Centre (SAPMiC) at the University of Sydney.
He also won the Special Award at the NSW Premier's Literary Awards and Non-Fiction Book of the Year, Australian Book Industry Awards.
He has also been awarded the Amnesty International Australia 2017 Media Award, the Diaspora Symposium Social Justice Award, and the Liberty Victoria 2018 Empty Chair Award, as well as the Anna Politkovskaya Award for journalism.
Behrouz Boochani’s No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison has made a major impact not just in Australia, but also internationally. A whole range of critics and commentators have emphatically praised the special qualities of this book. Robert Manne described it as “almost certainly the most important Australian book published in 2018”, while Dennis Altman described it as the “standout book of the year”, and Maxine Beneba Clarke wrote that “every Australian household should have a copy”.
No Friend But the Mountains is not just remarkable for the circumstances of its production – composed primarily through WhatsApp messages and then carefully and skilfully translated from Farsi by Omid Tofighian and arranged into a coherent and striking form by the editors at Pan Macmillan – or for its shocking and compelling content, which traces Boochani’s attempt to cross to Australia from Indonesia on a leaking boat, conveys the everyday suffering and resistance within the camps on Manus Island and culminates in the protests of February 2014 and the murder of the Iranian detainee Reza Barati. The book is also an outstanding work of literature in its own right.
Made with Iranian filmmaker Arash Kamali Sarvestani, it was shot clandestinely by Boochani using a smuggled smartphone.
Behrouz Boochani has recently been awarded the Victorian Premier Literary award for Non-fiction and a special award and is a non-resident Visiting Scholar at the Sydney Asia Pacific Migration Centre (SAPMiC) at the University of Sydney.
He also won the Special Award at the NSW Premier's Literary Awards and Non-Fiction Book of the Year, Australian Book Industry Awards.
He has also been awarded the Amnesty International Australia 2017 Media Award, the Diaspora Symposium Social Justice Award, and the Liberty Victoria 2018 Empty Chair Award, as well as the Anna Politkovskaya Award for journalism.
Behrouz Boochani’s No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison has made a major impact not just in Australia, but also internationally. A whole range of critics and commentators have emphatically praised the special qualities of this book. Robert Manne described it as “almost certainly the most important Australian book published in 2018”, while Dennis Altman described it as the “standout book of the year”, and Maxine Beneba Clarke wrote that “every Australian household should have a copy”.
No Friend But the Mountains is not just remarkable for the circumstances of its production – composed primarily through WhatsApp messages and then carefully and skilfully translated from Farsi by Omid Tofighian and arranged into a coherent and striking form by the editors at Pan Macmillan – or for its shocking and compelling content, which traces Boochani’s attempt to cross to Australia from Indonesia on a leaking boat, conveys the everyday suffering and resistance within the camps on Manus Island and culminates in the protests of February 2014 and the murder of the Iranian detainee Reza Barati. The book is also an outstanding work of literature in its own right.