JUSTICE MATTERS

Everybody to Kenmure Street

FELIPE BUSTOS SIERRA
UK, 2025
98 minutes, Color and Black & White
Official website

In Person:
April 23 screening: Director Felipe Bustos Sierra with guest moderator Kayla Hewitt, All Things Considered Producer, WAMU 88.5
April 25 screening: Director Felipe Bustos Sierra with guest moderator Cornelius Moore, independent curator and FFDC consultant

This Sundance award-winning documentary about ordinary citizens spontaneously uniting to resist a hostile immigration raid could hardly be timelier here. May 13, 2021, happened to be Eid, an important holiday for the diverse Glasgow neighborhood of Pollokshields, yet that was the day the Home Office chose to execute a surprise dawn arrest of two men who had been part of the community for 10 years. But to take them, the cops would first have to take their Kenmure Street neighbors—hundreds of them—and also "Van Man," who placed himself under the police van and would not budge (he is voiced by co-producer Emma Thompson, scrunched under a van). With skillfully edited you-are-there footage from the day-long siege and interviews rooting the incident in long local history, the film draws on the urgency of its subject to offer an uplifting picture of what is possible when people care.—Judy Bloch

In English, Urdu, and Punjabi with English subtitles

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