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Dunoon Film Festival is delighted to present a special preview screening of this new Scottish documentary, Everybody to Kenmure Street. We will be joined the director, Filipe Bustos SierraIn May 2021, a U.K. Home Office dawn raid triggers one of the most spontaneous and successful acts of civil resistance in recent memory. In Scotland’s most diverse neighbourhood, hundreds of residents rush to the streets to stop the deportation of their neighbours.
The morning in Glasgow, the first day of Eid, started as any other. However, when neighbours heard through community message networks that two local men were snatched up for deportation, hundreds of people left their breakfast tables, work Zoom calls, and daily lives to rush down to Kenmure Street to save them by putting their bodies on the line. Though mostly strangers, and with almost no planning, this extremely diverse group organized themselves, taking on essential roles to allow the collective to achieve their goal: protecting their own from government forces going after the weakest among them. An inspiring and profoundly moving portrait of what “normal” citizens are capable of in the face of injustice, Everybody To Kenmure Street reminds us of the power that is always inherent in the people. — SS
UK 2025
Documentary
Dir: Felipe Bustos Sierra
English / 98m
Felipe Bustos Sierra is a Chilean-Belgian film director based in Scotland. His debut feature-length documentary, Nae Pasaran (2018), won the Best Feature award at the 2018 BAFTA Scotland awards.
Presented in partnership with Conic Films and Screen Argyll
“A love letter to peaceful protest… a powerful testimony to a community’s ability to take control of their part of the story” — Screen International
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Studio Cinema - Dunoon, 3 Carolina Lane, Dunoon, PA23 7AF, United Kingdom, Greenock
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