Chauka, Please Tell Us the Time

Chauka, Please Tell Us the Time
Directed byArash Kamali Sarvestani
Behrouz Boochani
Written byArash Kamali Sarvestani
Behrouz Boochani
Produced byArash Kamali Sarvestani
CinematographyBehrouz Boochani
Edited byArash Kamali Sarvestani
Music byAram Kamali Sarvestani
Production
company
Sarvin Productions
Release date
  • 11 June 2017 (2017-06-11) (Sydney Film Festival)
Running time
90 Minutes
CountryPapua New Guinea
LanguagesEnglish, Persian, Kurdish

Chauka, Please Tell Us the Time is a documentary film co-directed by Kurdish-Iranian refugee Behrouz Boochani and Netherlands-based Iranian filmmaker Arash Kamali Sarvestani released in 2017. It was shot by Boochani from inside Australia's Manus Island detention centre in Papua New Guinea. The whole film was shot over six months on a smartphone, which had to be kept secret from the prison authorities.