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10 – 14 Nov

Film Screening: Chauka, Please Tell us the Time

  • Free
  • Film

Filmed in secret on a mobile phone inside the Manus Island Regional Processing Centre, this documentary offers a glimpse into the experience of hundreds of asylum seekers detained indefinitely by the Australian government. The film was a collaboration between Behrouz Boochani, a journalist and detainee on Manus Island for almost seven years, and Netherlands-based filmmaker Arash Kamali Sarvestani.

This 90-minute film will play on a loop throughout gallery hours, with start times at 11.30am, 1pm and 2.30pm.

Hours

Date Times
Tue 10 Nov
  • 11.30am - 1pm 11:30am - 1:00pm
  • 1pm - 2.30pm 1:00pm - 2:30pm
  • 2.30pm - 4pm 2:30pm - 4:00pm
Wed 11 Nov
  • 11.30am - 1pm 11:30am - 1:00pm
  • 1pm - 2.30pm 1:00pm - 2:30pm
  • 2.30pm - 4pm 2:30pm - 4:00pm
Thu 12 Nov
  • 11.30am - 1pm 11:30am - 1:00pm
  • 1pm - 2.30pm 1:00pm - 2:30pm
  • 2.30pm - 4pm 2:30pm - 4:00pm
Fri 13 Nov
  • 11.30am - 1pm 11:30am - 1:00pm
  • 1pm - 2.30pm 1:00pm - 2:30pm
  • 2.30pm - 4pm 2:30pm - 4:00pm
Sat 14 Nov
  • 11.30am - 1pm 11:30am - 1:00pm
  • 1pm - 2.30pm 1:00pm - 2:30pm
  • 2.30pm - 4pm 2:30pm - 4:00pm

Location

Education Gallery, Level 1
Buxton Contemporary
Dodds St
Southbank 3006

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Price and bookings

This is a free event

Booking not required

Contact details

  • telephone number: 03 9035 9339
  • email address: buxton-contemporary@unimelb.edu.au
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The City of Melbourne respectfully acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the land we govern, the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung and Bunurong / Boon Wurrung peoples of the Kulin and pays respect to their Elders past and present. We acknowledge and honour the unbroken spiritual, cultural and political connection they have maintained to this unique place for more than 2000 generations.

We accept the invitation in the Uluru Statement from the Heart and are committed to walking together to build a better future. For more information, visit Aboriginal Melbourne.

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