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Farid Farid

Refugee and former smuggler stars in Australian film

Iraqi asylum seeker Ali Al Jenabi plays a taxi driver in Australian feature film Damage. (HANDOUT/BUSBY PROJECTS)

Driving around all night in a taxi in a nameless city with faceless streets, Ali is on an unknown journey with elderly woman Esther who can't remember where to go while he cannot forget his trauma.

Damage, a feature-long independent Australian film directed by Madeleine Blackwell, casts Ali Al Jenabi, an Iraqi asylum seeker who was convicted as a people smuggler in Australia, and the director's mother Imelda Bourke.

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