Dutch Sheets on Reels

An asylum seeker from Iraq reaches Amsterdam in 1998, hoping to build a new life as an honourable refugee. Instead, he encounters brutal institutionalisation and minimal facilities that he shares with 500 others while waiting for the precious documents of acceptance by his host country. ‘Two Blankets, Three Sheets’ is Rodaan Al Galidi's autobiographical account of spending nine years as an asylum resident in the Netherlands. Even in such a bizarre situation, Al Galidi manages to find dark humour