Protest Movies

In September 2022, a 22-year-old Iranian woman, Mahsa Amini, died in police custody. She had been arrested by Iran’s religious police, accused...

“El apagón: Aquí vive gente” is a 23-minute film that explores the socio-economic challenges in Puerto Rico, focusing on...

An Italian documentary about No Tav movement.

This film, shot by 100 amateur camera operators, tells the story of the enormous street protests in Seattle, Washington in November 1999, against the...

A young Irish musician arrives in London in 1982 full of optimism and the desire to realise her dreams as an artist. She will have to come up against...

The campaign for women's suffrage steps up as Emmeline Pankhurst is arrested at the gates of Buckingham Palace.

A poetic short film showing a day in the 2019 protests in Santiago, Chile through documentary images.

A poetic David and Goliath tale, where David is an eco-activist with shields, helmets and Molotov cocktails in the backpack. Director Laurie Lassalle...

Adapted and directed by Peter Brook from the Royal Shakespeare Company’s ‘production-in-progress US’, this long-unseen agitprop...

Never before in Russian history has the Russian domestic intelligence services been more powerful than today. The FSB is a murky organisation that...

Hye-jeong, who lost her husband in an industrial accident, moves into a sparky new town apartment 'Dream Palace'. But things go awry, construction...

The ghost of a soldier from the Trojan War travels through the ruins of the ancient world to confront a council of tyrants who make war on reason. A...

On Wednesday, July 17th 2019, a heavily armed police force arrested 36 Native Hawaiian kūpuna peacefully protecting Maunakea from desecration....

In an insurrectionary climate, four twenty-year-old friends talk about politics. As a big protest looms, one of them, Clara, has to write a college...

Possibly one of the first gay videos in the history of video making in Quebec, if not all of Canada, this work invites us to a delirium organized...

Interviews and archival footage profile the life of Dennis Banks, American Indian Movement leader who looks back at his early life and the rise of...

A retired archivist is annoyed and confused by a group of protestors who are angered by a mural inside the retirement home where he resides that...

For 40 years, the community-organizing group ACORN advocated for America’s poorest communities, while its detractors accused it of promoting...

A documentary about a proposed military training area in Rothenthurm, Central Switzerland, and the village's resistance to those plans.

When Taeil gets hired as a tailor's assistant, he dreams of becoming a fully-fledged tailor to be able to financially support his family. But he...