A film by Guillaume Cailleau & Ben Russell. On April 11th & 12th at the fsk. QnA on April 12th.

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Direct action is a tac­ti­cal stra­tegy of pro­test that seeks to achie­ve an end direct­ly and by the most effec­ti­ve means. DIRECT ACTION is a con­tem­po­ra­ry por­trait of one of the most high-pro­fi­le mili­tant acti­vist com­mu­ni­ties in France: a 150-per­son strong rural coll­ec­ti­ve that suc­cessful­ly resis­ted an inter­na­tio­nal air­port expan­si­on pro­ject in 2018, crea­ted an auto­no­mous zone bet­ween 2012 and 2018, sur­vi­ved mul­ti­ple vio­lent evic­tion attempts by the French sta­te and spaw­ned a new eco­lo­gi­cal move­ment in 2021.
Using a col­la­bo­ra­ti­ve and immersi­ve obser­va­tio­nal approach, the film docu­ments the ever­y­day lives of a diver­se eco­sys­tem of acti­vists, squat­ters, anar­chists, far­mers and tho­se label­led by the govern­ment as “eco-ter­ro­rists”. Can the suc­cess of a radi­cal pro­test move­ment offer a path through the cli­ma­te crisis?

Credits:

DE/FR 2024, 216 Min., Französisch, Marokkanisch-Arabisch, Englisch OmU
Regie & Schnitt: Guillaume Cailleau & Ben Russell.
Kamera: Ben Russell

Trailer:

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