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Human Rights Watch film festival is screening this amazing documentary on detention of Afghan refugee children in Norway: Nowhere Home Wed 20 Mar, 9pm Ritzy cinema (followed by Q & A with filmmaker Magreth Olin) & Thur 6:40pm Curzon Soho, London Tickets & Trailer: http://ff.hrw.org/film/nowhere-home?city=4 "Is the reason we have a system that doesn't recognise other people's suffering because we can keep it at a distance?" -Margreth Olin In this compelling documentary, filmmaker Margreth Olin follows a number of boys from Salhus, a Norwegian centre offering temporary residence to unaccompanied asylum-seeking children. We get to know Goli who now lives back in Kurdistan after being deported from Norway the day after he turned 18. We follow him as he embarks on his journey back to country where he was given safe haven. We meet brothers Hassan and Hussein from Afghanistan. Traumatised by what they have witnessed in Afghanistan, Hussein is completely dependent on his brother as well as the support they receive from the Norwegian state. While all the boys at Salhus hope for an extension of their asylum status, the threat of deportation when they turn 18-and uncertain futures in Afghanistan, Iraq, or other war-torn countries-hangs over all their heads. A visceral and provocative film, Nowhere Home scrutinises one of Europe's major moral dilemmas. Official Selection Amsterdam International Documentary Film Festival 2012 Helen Muggeridge Outreach Coordinator Human Rights Watch Film Festival e-mail: [log in to unmask] +44 (0) 20 7713 2792 (office) +44 (0) 7722 827 358 (mobile) ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Note: The material contained in this communication comes to you from the Forced Migration Discussion List which is moderated by Forced Migration Online, Refugee Studies Centre (RSC), Oxford Department of International Development, University of Oxford. It does not necessarily reflect the views of the RSC or the University. If you re-print, copy, archive or re-post this message please retain this disclaimer. Quotations or extracts should include attribution to the original sources. E-mail: [log in to unmask] Posting guidelines: http://www.forcedmigration.org/research-resources/discussion/forced-migration-discussion-list-posting-guidelines Subscribe/unsubscribe: http://tinyurl.com/fmlist-join-leave List Archives: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/forced-migration.html RSS: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?RSS&L=forced-migration Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/refugeestudies Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/refugeestudiescentre