Cinema Resistenza: Perpera & My Name is Pengungsi (Refugee) – short films about West Papua

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Where

Addi Road Gumbramorra Hall
142 Addison Rd
Marrickville NSW 2204
Australia

Why

Papuan journalist Victor Mambor will introduce two films that highlight conditions and developments in our near neighbour, West Papua, where there is civil and armed conflict, thousands of internally displaced people, and ongoing large-scale environmental destruction from mining and logging industries.

Tickets available from Humanitix.

My Name is Pengungsi (Refugee)

Refugee Kogoya and Refugee Wakom are two of many internally displaced children who were born in the midst of the jungle of West Papuadue to parents having fled during the armed conflict between the Indonesian National Army/Police (TNI/POLRI) and the West Papua National Liberation Army (TPNPB).

Pepera 1969, A Democratic Integration?

A film about the highly controversial 1969 United Nations vote for West Papuan inclusion into the Republic of Indonesia. In what was meant to be a country wide vote only 1026 Papuans were included in the Indonesian military-controlled UN referendum. Those that did vote were threatened with violence and torture and death, and yet Australia and the United Nations accepted the so called, 'Act of Free Choice', as a legally binding referendum that sealed West Papua's fate as a part of Indonesia.

Tickets available from Humanitix.

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