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Calais, France: After Sangatte
Thursday 31 January 2008 sees the premiere of the short film After Sangatte at SOAS University in London.
The film came about after a short trip over to the northern French port of Calais in December 2007, to look at the refugee situation five years after the UK government forced the closure of the Red Cross Sangatte Refugee Camp.
The film centres around an interview with Ahmed, an Iraqi Kurd from Haifa Street in Baghdad, and his experiences during the war, his escape from Iraq and his journey to Calais as he sought asylum from the War on Terror.
Ahmed’s story is the story of more than 1000 now living on the streets of Calais, refugees from Palestine, Iran, Eritrea and Somalia, but predominantly from Iraq and Afghanistan.
The film will be preceded by a photographic slide show on the closure of the Sangatte Refugee Camp by photojournalist Guy Smallman and end in a talk with the film director Oscar Beard and journalist Simon Assaf.
All images (c) Jason N. Parkinson.
For image and footage availibility contact the author.
From February 2008 the film After Sangatte will be availible on Reel News issue 12.
