Everybody to Kenmure Street
- Sat, Apr 11
Director: Felipe Bustos Sierra Run Time: 98 min. Release Year: 2026
Starring: Emma Thompson, Kate Dickie
In May 2021 in Glasgow, on the first morning of Eid, Scottish immigration enforcement detained two men in the largely Muslim neighborhood of Pollokshields. Through an incredible communication network in the city, neighbors and concerned residents flood Kenmure Street to surround the vehicle and face off against authoritarianism. One protester even crawled beneath the detaining vehicle to prevent it from departing, and remained there for over 8 hours. Over 2,000 people showed up over the course of the day to record and disrupt the proceedings, sending a message to the very conservative U.K. Home Office. A stark reminder of the horrors that a government can inflict on the most vulnerable and an uplifting look at exactly what people can do to stop it, Everybody to Kenmure Street is a stunning documentary, not without humor, in the great tradition of anti-fascist filmmaking.