Friday, April 2

University of Pittsburgh

7:30 PM
HOME, SWEET HOME

DEPORTED TO TORTURE

HOME, SWEET HOME

Director: Dorthe Vest Andersen & Paul-Erik Heilbuth
2003. Denmark. 59min. Danish with English subtitles.
8.00pm

HOME, SWEET HOME takes a look at the growing concern in Europe over immigration. In France, the Netherlands, Austria and Denmark a political right wing has emerged, aided in its rise by a growing resistance towards foreigners. While America has devoted its efforts to attracting immigrants they deem useful - the well educated and productive - Europeans have devoted their efforts to keeping out the immigrants they don't want - the poor and illegal.

Filmmakers/Distributors Contact Information:
Marianne Cortzand
DR- Dokumentar
mc@dr.dk

Plays with Deported to Torture

DEPORTED TO TORTURE

Director: Line Fabricius and Hussein Ferdowsipour
2003. Denmark. 59min. Danish and Farsi with English subtitles.

In 1999 eighteen-year-old refugee Ashkan Panjahee was deported from Denmark to Iran. The Danish authorities said it was safe to send him back, but upon arriving in Iran he vanished without a trace. Four years later he reappeared to tell of the years of torture he suffered in Iranian prisons. DEPORTED TO TORTURE reconstructs Ashkan's entire case history and follows the now twenty-three-year-old refugee as he returns to Denmark, once again seeking asylum. The film features interviews with the policeman who handed Ashkan over in Teheran before he disappeared and who now has second thoughts, as well as with the Danish interior minister at the time who refused to grant asylum to the eighteen year old on humanitarian grounds.

Filmmakers/Distributors Contact Information:
Marianne Cortzand
DR- Dokumentar
mc@dr.dk