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A new Australian film set in an immigration detention centre is a jarring mix of violence, satire and humanism

  • Written by Alicia Byrnes, PhD Candidate and Sessional Tutor, Screen and Cultural Studies, University of Melbourne
A new Australian film set in an immigration detention centre is a jarring mix of violence, satire and humanismPhoenix Raei plays an Iranian refugee forced to join a fight club in a detention centre in the film Below.Melbourne International Film Festival

Review: Below, Melbourne International Film Festival

In a pivotal scene in Maziar Lahooti’s provocative but thoughtful satire, Below, Iranian refugee and conscripted fighter Azad (Phoenix Raei) decries...

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