Chasing Asylum
Chasing Asylum

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Chasing Asylum tells the story of Australia's cruel, inhumane treatment of asylum seekers and refugees, examining the human, political, financial and moral impact of current and previous policy.... (Full plot summary below)

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Chasing Asylum tells the story of Australia's cruel, inhumane treatment of asylum seekers and refugees, examining the human, political, financial and moral impact of current and previous policy.

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Flick Filosopher - 10/10 by MaryAnn JohansonAustralia's deplorable treatment of asylum seekers gets a devastating takedown... This is an international crime, one that much of the world is unaware of, and it cannot be allowed to continue... [U]rgent and essential journalism.
VODzilla.co - 9/10 by Matthew TurnerAn immensely powerful documentary that presents an urgent and timely argument for compassion in the way governments deal with refugees.
Herald Sun (Australia) - 8/10 by Leigh PaatschIn Chasing Asylum, we have one of the most important documentaries ever made in this country, addressing one of the most important issues to ever face this country.
Screen International - 7/10 by Sarah WardJust as successive Australian governments have proven effective in... [discouraging] asylum seekers from attempting to enter the country, Chasing Asylum is similarly brutal in revealing the human toll of putting that plan into action.
Junkee - 7/10 by Glenn DunksIt's as incendiary a work of documentary filmmaking that this country has produced in quite some time.
3AW - 3/10 by Jim SchembriThe important issue of refugees and off-shore detention centres gets half the treatment it deserves in this well-meaning, woefully one-sided slice of activist doco-making from Eva Orner...The film is so one-sided you half-expect the screen to capsize.
User Review - 10/10 by Natalie CAn excellent documentary that every Aussie should watch. I walked out in tears, feeling lucky to be born into a middle class family with no persecution or poverty to have to flee from. "I think Australians are sick of being lectured to by the United Nations - particularly because we have stopped the boats"....seriously Tony? It's at times like this I am embarrassed to call myself an Auusie ??
User Review - 6/10 by Ary LMust see doco. Very disturbing documentary in content and angle of what is a horrendous situation for those imprisoned, and those who wait in hope of a safe & secure future.
User Review - 6/10 by Timm SIt Is A Hard Slog To Watch, As It Digresses Into The Emotive Stories & Human Toll Of Ceasing The Global Trade In Human Trafficking, When There Is A Much Deeper Political Story At Play; That Being The Hearts & Minds Battle Of Maintaining Peace In A Globalised World, Where The Poor & Impoverish Have Less Say While The Bigger Cats (1st-World) Fight It Out Over Resources, Power & Capital Manipulation Or Military Might Within Countries. That Said, These Stories At Least Being Told Is Worth Every Minute Of Listening To. I Am At A Loss As To What The 'Best Outcome' Is For Us As A Planet, Treating Humans With Dignity, But Clearly People Cannot Live Amongst War (So There Are Those That Need To Flee) ..But Some Asylum Seekers Appeared To Have A Home To Go To, To Stay In Safely? But Chose To Leave For A "Better Life", Which Clearly Does Not Exist On A Tropical Island. The Modern Day Irony Of That Is Not Lost On Me Being A Western Watching Adverts On TV About "Escaping To A Tropical Island"; So All This Left Me Feeling Torn & Confused. No Answers There. But I'm Sure Some Whom Had Left A Reasonably Good Home Had 20:20 Vision Once They Were In The Hell That Is Manus Or Naru. :-/
User Review - 2/10 by Alex MOut of Date and Out of Touch. It will come as a surprise to no one who sees this film that filmmaker Eva Orner has been living in the United States since 2004. She has adopted the shrill tone and reckless disregard for facts which are characteristic of long suffering American liberals who have come to believe that the importance of their missions override fair and reasoned discourse. See any liberal documentary like anything Michael Moore has made. I hate guns but my point is, no one was convinced by only an idiot could be convinced by those films- do you really think anyone who supports or opposes gun rights before seeing Bowling for Columbine changed their opinion after? Australia is not the United States and to convince an aussie audience you need to have the facts on your side and you need to make a good argument- This film has neither. Most of Orner's insider footage comes from 19 year volunteers who worked in the two offshore detention centres. They are very young and naïve and say things like, "I didn't expect a detention centre to have walls." Their evidence amounts to little more than living in detention is unpleasant. Orner interviewed the families of two asylum seekers who died and never reckoned with the obvious fact that both were economic migrants. Their families were well off, in large houses in Iran, and they were in no danger. It is tragic that they died but the families appeared to be grieving that their children undertook such a reckless course of action unnecessarily. Their inclusion in the film directly supports the argument for Turning Back the Boats. They had no right under any international treaty to move to Australia. Using their senseless deaths to try and "shame" Australia simply doesn't work. Orner also shows a group of Afghans living in Indonesia waiting for the chance to migrate to Australia. She estimates the number of migrants waiting for the Australian government to change its policy to be in the tens of thousands. If that's true, then it's a bit cheeky to make the argument that changing the policy wouldn't result in an immediate jump in tens of thousands of new migrants on new boats. She literally shows families and groups of men waiting in a holding pattern, the film has zero self-awareness. Also speaking of zero self awareness, in that segment the film shows the group of afghan men sitting in a circle watching two preteen boys dance together. This is the bacha bazi (Translation -boy play) culture which is paedophilia. Even the Taliban banned it. Orner showed this ostensibly as an example of the diverse culture migrants have to offer. She apparently never questioned whether that aspect of the culture is something that Australians would want to add to their own. At the screening I attended, Orner did a QA session. In it, she mentioned she mentioned the personal reasons why she made this film. Her parents were holocaust survivors and made a new life in Australia. The international treaties governing refugees has deep personal meaning for her. Her personal stake in the issue, real or imagined, has made her hopelessly biased. At the QA she mentioned the recent baby who remained in Australia, baby Asher. She said, "Nauru is no place for a baby." I think that would be news to the hundreds of babies born on Nauru and by her definition, they should all be eligible for a new life in Australia. Lastly this film is woefully out of date. In one section it shows that Germany took in 1 million migrants in one year while Australia only took in 16,000. This information is listed with zero analysis of how that's working out for Germany. So it's left for the audience to ask itself: How is that policy working out for Germany, and how is our policy working out for Australia? That leads to the next question an engaged audience member must ask themselves: Between Germany and Australia, which country is copying the other's asylum seeker policy today? It is Germany that has adopted Australia's Turn Back The Boats policy. I wonder why.

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