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Neukölln Unlimited (15) Wednesday 22 June 7.30pm, Paisley Arts Centre, New Street, Paisley, PA1 1EZ £5 (£4)
Three refugee siblings rely on their breakdancing and music skills to survive as they struggle with the daily threat of deportation out of Germany. Hasan, Maradonna and their sister Lial devise a plan: they’ll use their artistic talents to financially support their family and show the authorities that they deserve to stay. Info: 0141 887 1010 www.
renfrewshire.gov.uk/ onlinebooking
Persepolis (12A) Tuesday 21 June 7.30 – 9pm, CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3JD. £5 (£4) proceeds to Freedom from Torture
This brilliant, complex and often very funny animation is based on graphic novels by the director, Marjane Satrapi.
It tells the story of her childhood in Iran during the Islamic Revolution, exile to Vienna as a teenager and her poignant return to her homeland. Persepolis charts the personal and political journey to adulthood of an engaging free-spirited young woman, an exile in the West, a dissident in her own country. What future will she choose? Info: CCA 0141 352 4900
Carla’s Song (15) (d Ken Loach) Filmhouse, MacRobert, University of Stirling, Stirling, FK9 4LA. Wednesday 22 June 7.30pm, £5,75 (£5.25) Thursday 23 June 5.15pm, £4.75 (£4.25)
Set in 1987, Carla’s Song tells the story of the relationship between a Scottish bus driver, George Lennox (Robert Carlyle) and Carla (Oyanka Cabezas). Carla is a dancer who has fled Nicaragua after her group was ambushed by Contras. George chances upon her busking, while driving his bus
along St Vincent Street; he duly abandons his bus to pursue her acquaintance.
Making Connections (GRAMNet) & In this World (2002) (d Michael Winterbottom) Wednesday 22 June 6:15pm - CCA , 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3JD Free event
Making Connections looks at the collaboration of activists and academics and how they deal with the issues affecting refugees and asylum seekers today. The film was made by postgraduate students at Glasgow University tutored and supported by Camcorder Guerillas.
In This World follows young Afghan’s Jamal and Enayat as they embark on a hazardous overland trip from their refugee camp in Pakistan. Entering Turkey on foot the pair face suffocation when locked in a freight container on a ship
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