Chauka, Please Tell Us the Time is a documentary film co-directed by Kurdish-Iranian refugee Behrouz Boochani and Netherlands-based Iranian filmmaker Arash Kamali Sarvestani released in 2017.

He was intercepted by Australian authorities while attempting a boat crossing from Indonesia to Australia and incarcerated in the Manus Island detention centre.

[4] The film does not use action shots of violence, and there is very little commentary, aiming to invite audiences to see the lives of the refugees through their own eyes.

Apart from informing the audience about how the Australian government is punishing the asylum seekers on this remote island, he also wanted to show "Manusian culture, how beautiful it is and how kind they are, and how they are also victims under this system that is still based on colonialism.

[4] Boochani has described the film as the most important work he had created, before his book No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison was published in 2018.

[1] Boochani described Sarvestani as a "great artist because he was drowning in our lives in this prison and he could create this movie because of his deep imagination and understanding of what it is like".

[9][10] A review of the film was written by the award-winning writer Arnold Zable, which talks of "startling, poetic surreal-like images" and "theme of the Chauka, and what it symbolises [being] a brilliant conception", saying that the film-makers " transcend the severe limitations of the circumstances under which the film was shot, to give us a glimpse of hell, juxtaposed against the island’s tropical beauty and fragments of its indigenous culture".

[17] ACMI writer Enza Capobianco calls it "an unprecedented work, not only because of the circumstances surrounding its clandestine execution, but also because the final product is more than an explosive exposé.

The directors' shared love of film minimalism, in combination with the insight afforded by Behrouz's own lived experience in the centre, has resulted in an intimate and poetic call to action to end to off-shore detention".