Freedom is Beautiful

A documentary about freedom, love & the power of music

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"Freedom Is Beautiful" (FIB) is a documentary short about two remarkable Kurdish Iranian refugees, Farhad Bandesh and Mostafa Azimitibar, who were freed from hotel detention in Melbourne after being imprisoned for seven and a half years under Australia's brutal offshore processing regime. They will attend the screening via Zoom.

FIB traces the stories of the two men in their own words: fleeing persecution in Iran, the experience of captivity under Australia's policy and now freedom. Their personal stories are used as a vehicle to describe the suffering experienced by thousands of refugee and asylum seekers who have been held, to expose why the policy has been so inhumane, why it must end and why it should never be repeated.

They are exceptional and articulate men, resilient, good humoured, and irrepressible in their desire to use their music and art as form of peaceful resistance to promote humanity and advocate on behalf of all those who remained imprisoned.

FIB is a human story about hope, love and solidarity, humanising the plight of those who have suffered under the policy by drilling down on the characters of these two men to make them universally relatable.