A controversial docudrama about alleged mistreatment of refugees in Glasgow was selected as the best new British feature film at the Edinburgh Film Festival. The film, Gas Attack (The Silent Killer), also garnered a $7,000 cash prize. Produced for less than $1 million, the 70-minute film describes the life of a family of Turkish Kurds and was described in the festival program as “a horrifying picture of the experience of the asylum seeker.” The festival jury praised “the way it has taken the by now over-familiar style of reality television and made of it something profound and thought provoking.”
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