17.11.08

LEEDS FILM FESTIVAL

SEAVIEW just screened at the Leeds Film Festival. And the programmers wrote this great synopsis for the film.

Mesmerising, cinematic and with an awesome sense of atmosphere, Seaview takes us on an almost Lynchian tour of a former Butlins holiday camp, now the 'home' for hundreds of refugees awaiting replies to appeals for asylum, some for 5 years. A superb human rights documentary which puts us inside the security patrolled grounds of this surreal world of waiting so that just for 82 minutes we might get some idea of the daily existence of thousands who live imprisoned in order to hopefully be free.


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