FLEFF 25th Anniversary Pathway: Films about Collective Action

By Rachel Schaff, March 17, 2022

This FLEFF Pathways list of films offers documentaries and narrative films from China, Hong Kong, Morocco, the United Kingdom, and the US. Click on the link on the title to read more or to purchase a ticket on Cinemapolis' Eventive Virtual Cinema platform

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FLEFF 25th Anniversary Pathway: Films about Collective Action

All films are $10 per screening. Save money and buy a 5 pass for $35.  Even better, buy an All Access pass to all 25 films on Virtual Cinema and all 3 in-person screenings for $125. 

Purchase tickets and passes HERE.  Dive into the FLEFF 2022 catalog of films HERE.  Immerse in all 65 FLEFF 2022 events HERE. 

Click on the link on each titles for more information on the film, as well as registration links for talkbacks with directors, writers, scholars, journalists, musicians, archivists, and activists.

CASABLANCA BEATS (Nabil Ayouch, Morocco/France, 2019)

Anas, a former rapper, starts teaching in a cultural center. With his encouragement, the students try to free themselves from the weight of traditions and express themselves through hip hop culture.

NATIONTIME (William Greaves, United States, 1972)

Nationtime is a report on the National Black Political Convention held in Gary, Indiana in 1972, a historic event that gathered Black voices such as Jesse Jackson, Dick Gregory, Coretta Scott King, Dr. Betty Shabazz, Richard Hatcher, Amiri Baraka, Charles Diggs, Isaac Hayes, Richard Roundtree and H. Carl McCall. Considered too militant for television broadcast, this new 4K restoration returns the film to its original 80-minute length and visual quality.

OUTCRY AND WHISPER (Wen Hai, Zeng Jinyan, Trish McAdam, Hong Kong/China, 2020)

Shot over eight years, Outcry and Whisper is a political manifesto for the resistance of women, whether workers, artists, intellectuals or militants, in Chinese and Hong Kong Society. Their accounts shine light on a ferocious battle for independence.

REBEL DYKES (Harri Shanahan and Sean A. Williams, United Kingdom, 2021)

A rabble-rousing full-length documentary about the explosion that happened when punk met feminism, told through the lives of a gang of lesbians in the riotous London of the 1980s.

SCREENING FROM WITHIN (Thomas Lahusen, Yi Cui, China/Canada, 2018)

Workers in China share their experiences of government and NGO-sponsored outdoor film screenings. Many remember when itinerant screening attracted huge crowds of viewers before the government stepped in.

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