https://www.scmp.com/rss/328111/feed en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Behrouz Boochani is not an angry man. He tells me this on the phone from Manus Island in Papua New Guinea, where he has been detained by the Australian government for the past six years. “I should be angry, but in my personal life, I am a peaceful person,” he says, laughter in his voice. Boochani is a Kurdish refugee from Iran who twice attempted to make it from Indonesia to Australia by boat in 2013. The first time the wooden vessel sank, and Boochani and other passengers were lucky to survive.... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/society/article/3020309/using-whatsapp-and-sms-refugee-behrouz-boochani-writes-book-manus?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/society/article/3020309/using-whatsapp-and-sms-refugee-behrouz-boochani-writes-book-manus?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 28 Jul 2019 23:00:11 +0000 Kamila Andini never imagined she would become a filmmaker. “Never,” she emphasises. “Even though I was born in a filmmaker’s house and, seeing who my father is [Garin Nugroho, one of the nation’s most well-respected filmmakers], there was always poetry, storytelling, nature, art and culture in the atmosphere of our house – but when I was a kid, I never thought about it.” Now in Bali running workshops and conducting research, Andini says she found it was her calling and has now released her... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/society/article/2157613/how-kamila-andini-reworking-script-indonesias-male-dominated-film?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/society/article/2157613/how-kamila-andini-reworking-script-indonesias-male-dominated-film?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 05 Aug 2018 11:15:54 +0000