Everybody to Kenmure Street (2026)
Director: Felipe Bustos Sierra
In May 2021, a UK Home Office dawn raid triggers one of the most spontaneous and successful acts of civil resistance in recent memory. In Pollokshields, Scotland’s most diverse neighbourhood, hundreds of residents rush to the streets to stop the deportation of their neighbours.
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Director
Felipe Bustos Sierra
Cast
Emma Thompson
Kate Dickie
Keira Lucchesi
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When a couple of Home Office immigration officials take two men into custody in Glasgow’s ethnically diverse Pollokshields district, they get a lot more than they bargained from from the quick-to-react locals. Before they can drive off with their prisoners, a man has slid under their van and attached himself to it’s axle. His part, depicted by Dame Emma Thompson - her face his words, and his increasingly uncomfortable conversations with a passing nurse (Kate Dickie) form the only dramatised part of this documentary as some one hundred and forty police officers ended up in a street of tenement buildings surrounded by some two thousand irritated and noisy Glaswegians. Is a showdown inevitable? Is a riot? There’s an impressive array of hand held photography used here to illustrate just how quickly this escalated into something akin to a powder keg scenario, but for my money there simp…
