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Nowhere Line: Voices From Manus Island

Directed and Produced by Lukas Schrank Character Artwork by Luke Bicevskis

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Nowhere Line: Voices From Manus Island

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An animated short film, narrated by two asylum-seeking men detained in Australia's Manus Island Offshore Processing Centre, recounting the dangerous journeys that brought them to the island and their memories of the riot that erupted in 2014.

In July 2013, the Australian Government introduced a controversial immigration policy, transferring asylum seekers arriving by boat to remote offshore detention centres on foreign Pacific islands. Seven months later, the Manus Island centre erupted in violence when police and guards put down protests with sticks, machetes and guns, and 23 year-old asylum seeker Reza Barati was killed.

We spoke to Behrouz and Omar, who are currently detained on Manus Island. This film contains recordings of these conversations.

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Voices From the Island Where Australia Deports Asylum Seekers Apr 08, 2016 Video by Lukas Schrank Nowhere Line is a powerful animated film that explores Australia’s controversial immigration policy of transferring asylum seekers arriving by boat to remote detention centers on Pacific islands. The filmmaker Lukas Schrank spoke to two men, Karim and Omar, who are currently detained on Manus Island in Papua New Guinea, and illustrated their stories. The result is a graphic novel-style depiction of a devastating reality for almost 1,000 asylum seekers held in the processing center.