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Jan Palach: 50 Years On
Posted 15 January 2019 by Andy Moore about Jan Palach + Q&A with director Robert Sedlácek.
50 years ago, on the 16th of January 1969, the philosophy student and political activist Jan Palach set himself on fire in Wenceslas Square in central Prague. He did so to protest the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia.
Doc/Nights launches with Island of the Hungry Ghosts
Posted 8 January 2019 by Andy Moore about Island of the Hungry Ghosts + Panel Discussion.
A vivid and powerful new documentary opening at the Showroom Cinema this Friday sheds light on the human impact of the Australian government’s immigration policies and their system of the ‘offshore processing’ of refugees.