Julian Assange Film 'Ithaka' Opens in Independent Theaters Today

Ben Lawrence

CINEMA – While Australian journalist and freedom of expression activist Julian Assange has been held in prison in England since 2019, the documentary film Ithaka: the fight to free Assange, directed by Ben Lawrence, is being screened starting this Wednesday, January 17 in independent theaters. A screening is even planned at the National Assembly on Wednesday, February 7.

The film will be showing at 8 p.m. this Wednesday evening at the Espace Saint-Michel (Paris V), an independent cinema that had already hosted the three parts of the independent and critically acclaimed film The World After. The cinema located at 7, place Saint-Michel, has planned two other screenings this Friday, January 19, as well as next January 30, also at 8 p.m.

The Assange Support Committee, which fights to defend the journalist's rights, will co-organize a screening of the film for MPs and the media on February 7 at the National Assembly in Paris.

The moving film Ihtaka revisits the fight of Julian Assange's family and activists dedicated to his cause around the world. For Assange's biological father, John Shipton, and for the journalist's wife, Stella, it is a daily struggle to hope, one day, to see the founder of the Wikileaks site, freed.

Julian Assange has been imprisoned for nearly five years in a high-security wing in Belmarsh, England, for having revealed to the general public in 2010 millions of confidential documents, which brought to light numerous state scandals.

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Largely forgotten by the mass media, the fight for the liberation of Julian Assange mobilizes millions of citizens around the world. Psychologically tortured, deprived of freedom for nearly 15 years, the Australian journalist today symbolizes the very idea of ​​freedom of the press and expression, and the silence of our French media about him is revealing, to say the least. Like the fact that Ithaka is only shown in a few independent theaters, further proof of the lack of freedom of French movie theaters.

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