"Purple Sea": Watch the film: Yorktivist

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Made from images filmed by Amel Alzakout after the boat on which she was fleeing Syria in 2015 sank near Lesbos; those fleeing await rescue.

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"I see everything," she says as if it was a curse. Brilliant sunshine, clear blue skies. The sea is calm, framed by a piece of railing. A peaceful moment if it weren't for the fact that the sea is standing upright, vertical, like a waterfall. A rush of images, twirling, upside down, jolting. People in the boat, in the water, screams, life jackets, emergency whistles. There's no horizon anymore, no sky, no up or down, only deepness and nothing to hold on to. Even time's flow comes to a halt, contracting into the brutal present. She is filming and speaking. To beat being tired, being cold, the fact that help isn't coming. To beat dying, just for something to remain.

Audience members will have from 9am 1 February to 9pm 2 February to watch the film online. There is a restriction on the number of screenings available, so please watch the film early to avoid disappointment. You will receive your login details to access the film at 9am on 1 February.

Winner of the Film Prize of the Robert Bosch Stiftung, Best Film Award at the Human Rights Film Festival Inconvenient Films, Youth Jury Prize at Filmmaker Festival, Honorable Mention of the International Competition Jury at the DocPoint Helsinki, ELBE DOCK Award 2021

Be sure to also join our live, online Q&amp;A with the filmmakers of "Purple Sea", and a panel discussion with them, Emilie Flower (CAHR Associate, University of York) and Dr Kyveli Lignou-Tsamantani (Associate Lecturer, History of Art, University of York), 2 February at 18.00. <a href="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/live-online-qa-for-purple-sea-yorktivist-tickets-248949423427" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Register via Eventbrite.</a>

Food for thought: From the Universal Declaration for Human Rights, Articles 13 and 14 apply to this film. Article 13: Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each state.Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country.Article 1: Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution.This right may not be invoked in the case of prosecutions genuinely arising from non-political crimes or from acts contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations.

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