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Refugee Week Film Screening: Silence Heard Loud

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Venue: Birkbeck 43 Gordon Square

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In celebration of Refugee Week, Students, Staff and Friends of Birkbeck are invited to a private film screening of Silence Heard Loud, a film directed by Anna Konik in collaboration with Birkbeck's School of Arts and The Compass Project. 

The film, which premiered earlier this year at the Human Rights Watch Film Festival, comprises seven stories of individuals living in the UK and fleeing from war, domestic violence or ethnic hatred. An artful, intimate yet socially-loaded work that discloses the tragic stories of everyday people searching for a better life in a foreign country, but that years after their arrival still have no permission to work, face loneliness, or are threatened by potential repatriation. A humanising film, that speaks of the pain of dehumanisation.

Silence Heard Loud (71 minutes) will be screened alongside a short accompanying film A Road to Travel (12 minutes) in which the seven participants speak about their experience of studying at Birkbeck and what it means to them.

More information about the film and the trailer can be viewed online.

Content Advisory: This film contains references to racism, domestic and sexual violence, rape, homophobia, suicide, human trafficking and modern day slavery which viewers may find distressing.

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