Status: Illegal
Status illegal
The Topic
The Rohingya people are made stateless by the dictatorship in Burma and live in a nightmarish legal limbo. They don’t belong anywhere and are not granted any rights in society.
Undocumented migrants in Norway are in the same situation. They are called ”illegal”. How can a human being be illegal? Are we aware that an increasing amount of people in Norway are denied fundamental human rights?
No one is illegal!
Article 15.
No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his nationality nor denied the right to change his nationality.
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12:00
Parkteatret: Imagining Emanuel
School screening
Emanuel er afrikaner og analfabet, og han er papirløs asylsøker i Norge. Han har oppholdt seg her i landet siden 2003, men ønsker ikke lenger å leve som illegal, og de siste to årene har han forsøkt å få returnere til sitt hjemland, uten hell.
- Director:
- Thomas Østbye
- Country:
- Norway
- Length:
- 50 min
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16:00
Parkteatret: The Exodus of The Rohingyas (w/debate)
The Rohingyas, a Muslim minority group in Burma, were made stateless in 1982 by the military dictatorship. Thousands of Rohingyas have fled brutal suppression in their home country to poverty, misery and abuse in neighbouring Bangladesh. Bangladesh does not accept them as refugees while Burma don´t want them back.
This film describes the nightmarish legal limbo they are living in.
- Director:
- Javier Gomez Serrano
- Country:
- Spain
- Length:
- 26 min
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16:00
Parkteatret: Burma debate
The Rohingyas of Burma are stateless and have been living in misery for decades. They are a forgotten people. Why is it so difficult to find a solution to their situation and to give them a life with dignity?
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18:00
Parkteatret: Imagining Emanuel
Emanuel er afrikaner og analfabet, og han er papirløs asylsøker i Norge. Han har oppholdt seg her i landet siden 2003, men ønsker ikke lenger å leve som illegal, og de siste to årene har han forsøkt å få returnere til sitt hjemland, uten hell. Etter filmen blir det debatt om papirløses situasjon i Norge.
- Director:
- Thomas Østbye
- Country:
- Norway
- Length:
- 50 min
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18:00
Parkteatret: Papirløses situasjon i Norge debate (in norwegian)
Menneskerettigheter; ikke for alle?
Norge har en svært rigid holdning til papirløse flyktninger som ikke får oppholdstillatelse. En rekke
europeiske land har gitt papirløse med langt opphold i landet amnesti, mens man i Norge har nektet
å se etter løsninger, men heller har akkumulert en stor gruppe mennesker som lever så og si uten rettigheter. -
21:00
Parkteateret: Special Flight
Awaiting definite deportation from the Swiss territory, men are jailed at the administrative detention centre Frambois. As their request for asylum has failed, they are ordered to leave, some of them after having spent several years in Switzerland, worked, paid taxes, and started a family.
- Director:
- Fernand Melger
- Country:
- Switzerland
- Length:
- 100 min
Pre-Premiere!
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18:00
Vika Kino: Silenced Voices: Tales of Sri Lankan Journalists in Exile
This is a film about freedom of speech. It shows how much some individuals are willing to sacrifice to bring information to light.
Tickets available at oslokino.no!
- Director:
- Beate Arnestad
- Country:
- Norway
- Length:
- 60 min
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18:00
: Silenced Voices debate
The Fritt Ord Foundation and Human Rights Human Wrongs invites the public to a debate after the screening of Silenced Voices – Tales of Sri Lankan Journalists in Exile featuring director Beate Arnestad, and Bashana Abeywardane, journalist and writer from Sri Lanka living in exile, writer and former BBC Foreign Correspondent in Sri Lanka Frances Harrison and Sverre Tom Radøy, journalist in The Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation.