Movies: Protest
- 2014
Folkbildningsterror (2014)
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We follow the timid Theo, whose mother stands to lose her disability benefits. Help comes from the effortlessly flamboyant trans woman Kleopatra, a militant animal-identified posthumanist (a.k.a. Rabbit), and their fearless comrades. Together they re...
- 2016
Disobedience (2016)
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Disobedience tells the David vs. Goliath tale of front line leaders battling for a livable world. Filmed in the Philippines, Turkey, Germany, Canada, Cambodia and the United States, it weaves together these riveting stories with insights from the mos...
- 2022
again and again ... (2022)
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This should not be presumptuous, but we are deeply touched by the dramatic and catastrophic situation in Ukraine. The analogy between swarms of birds and people is so obvious. You can achieve almost nothing on your own, you are strong together. #not...
- 2019
Khamsin (2019)
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Lebanon today. The traces of the civil war are all too tangible as government corruption becomes unbearable. In a country where conflict and peace are caught in an endless cycle, musicians from different backgrounds pool their talents to create an un...
- 1984
Rothenthurm (1984)
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A documentary about a proposed military training area in Rothenthurm, Central Switzerland, and the village's resistance to those plans....
- 2014
Déception durable (2014)
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- 1969
Primavera Lacrimógena (1969)
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A poetic short film showing a day in the 2019 protests in Santiago, Chile through documentary images....
- 1966
Because My Bike Was There... (1966)
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On 19 March 1966, a photo exhibition about the police intervention during the wedding of Beatrix and Claus opened in Amsterdam. After the opening, filmmaker Louis van Gasteren filmed how, in the distance, policemen began beating up a young man, seemi...
- 2014
Não é Sobre Sapatos (2014)
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The film shows the images made by the police during demonstrations of 2013 (Brazil). In times of anonymous faces, what to do with the feet?...
- 2019
Rebellion (2019)
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As the 'one country two systems' policy in Hong Kong has slowly eroded, resentment among the territory's citizens has steadily grown. What began as a series of spontaneous protests against an extradition law in March 2019 has now escalated in to a fu...
- 2014
A Fight for (2014)
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A month after the Wall Street occupation, a number of protesters follow their example and set up their tents in front of the Ljubljana stock market. The protesters are united in the critique of representative democracy and global financial capitalism...
- 2010
Love Exiled (2010)
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On November 4th, 2008, three states - California, Florida and Arizona - voted to amend their constitutions, denying and revoking the rights of same-sex couples to marry. On May 26, 2009, with Canadian allies, gay American families rally at a Vancouve...
- 1975
The Prostitutes of Lyon Speak (1975)
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Documentary about the Lyon sex workers who occupied the church of St. Nizier on June 3, 1975....
- 2019
Extinction Rebellion: Last Chance to Save the World? (2019)
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A huge new global protest movement is changing public attitudes to climate change. Reporter Ben Zand gains access to the most high-profile activist group, Extinction Rebellion....
- 1967
Napalm (1967)
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A variety of locals react to a napalm plant and an ensuing protest in Redwood City CA during the Vietnam War....
- 2014
Millions Can Walk (2014)
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Hundreds of thousands of Indian men and women – indigenous inhabitants and landless farmers – demand their right to existence by making a 400 kilometre protest march from Gwalior to Delhi. How can one fight for one’s rights without using violence? Wi...
- 1998
Yuxweluptun: Man of Masks (1998)
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This short documentary serves as a portrait of Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun, one of Canada's most important painters. We meet him at the Bisley Rifle Range in Surrey, England, where he's literally shooting the Indian Act in a performance piece called "A...
- 1969
waawiyebii'ige: She Draws a Circle (1969)
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She Draws a Circle reflects on the work of generations of women to interrupt cycles of violence and oppression, looking to the ways in which our spiritual connections to the land and one another help us to hold space for regenerative healing, br...
- 2022
Don't Be Afraid (2022)
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Don't Be Afraid is a short film about protests. A father Hank (Ben Cable) and his son Ben (Cristopher Michael Rose) have a heart-to-heart talk about an upcoming protest action....
- 2020
The Rebellion of Memory (2020)
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It became world news in October 2019 when economic reforms in Ecuador led to gas prices suddenly shooting up by 123 percent. People from urban and indigenous communities united in protest. In The Rebellion of Memory we follow the events through their...