Tall fences, taller trees and film as resistance

• Published in: Eureka street Vol. 30; no. 20; pp. 27 - 29
• Main Author: Arnold Zable
• Format: Journal Article
• Published: 01.10.2020
• Subjects: Cyclones; Motion picture producers and directors; Motion pictures; Plots, themes, etc

Tall Fences, Taller Trees, directed by Dutch-based Iranian filmmaker, Arash Kamali Sarvestani, is a companion to Chauka, Please Tell Us the Time, which Sarvestani codirected with Kurdish-Iranian writer and Manus Island detainee, Behrouz Boochani. Despite the daunting challenges the collaborators fac...