Screening: DIRECT ACTION — Montreal Premiere with PHILIPPE BLOUIN

Join us for the Montreal Premiere of DIRECT ACTION with special guest Philippe Blouin! This bold, politically charged film explores direct action against oppression through the life of a militant activist community in France.

Direct Action
by Ben Russell & Guillaume Cailleau
2024
3h36m
France, Germany · Arabic
French · English subs

About the film

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?

Admission: By donation (suggested: $5-$10)