Citizen

A British mother is arrested whilst visiting family overseas with her baby daughter.
A family of political refugees are moving to Australia to start a new life.
American citizens, working, travelling, and holidaying around the world, fall victim to Trump’s executive order against 7 Muslim countries, and can’t return home.

They are all human. They are all Iranian.

Their only crime: their ethnicity.

Drawing on interviews with Iranian migrants, award winning company Suitcase Civilians return to the Space with CITIZEN, directed by Sepy Baghaei (nominated for Best New Talent at Short+Sweet Sydney 2012); a powerful new production exploring the blurry line between our identities as humans and ethnic types, and when we stop being seen as one or the other.