Freedom Street.

A special fundraising screening of Alfred Pek’s humanitarian documentary, Freedom Street, will be held in Perth in support of Centre for Asylum seekers, Refugees And Detainees during Refugee Week.

Freedom Street is the harrowing story of Joniad, Ashfaq and Azizah, three refugees who have been stuck in Makassar, Indonesia for several years as a result of Australia’s border policy. There are currently around 14000 refugees in Indonesia and every day their hopes for resettlement are diminishing.

Freedom Street presents the refugees’ stories while deconstructing Australian policy in a series of conversations with various experts. The experts provide insight into Australia’s long history of border control and Australian-Indonesian relations which serve to contextualise the struggle of our three protagonists as they look towards an uncertain future.

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The documentary highlights the cost of Australia’s undemocratic policies both on the refugees and the Australian taxpayer while urgently sounding the alarm for meaningful and humane solutions to an ever-worsening issue.

This will be the first screening of Freedom Street in Perth following a screening at the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival in 2022.

CARAD is the only organisation in WA providing last-resort crisis support to refugees and asylum seekers in this state. Many of their clients come to us when they have nowhere else to turn, and they provide holistic support that is tailored to people’s needs, including case work, emergency relief, healthcare, food security, material aid, social inclusion and advocacy.

Freedom Street will be on Thursday, June 22 at 6.30pm at Windsor Theatre, Nedlands. Details here. 

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