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DIRECT ACTION

By Guillaume CAILLEAU, Ben RUSSELL

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Documentary - Completed 2024

DIRECT ACTION documents the everyday of one of the most important activist communities in France in order to see how the success of a radical protest movement can offer a path through the climate crisis facing us all.

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& Awards

Berlinale - Berlin IFF 2024
Encounters Special Mention for Best Film
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    • Year of production
    • 2024
    • Genres
    • Documentary
    • Countries
    • FRANCE, GERMANY
    • Languages
    • FRENCH, ENGLISH
    • Duration
    • 216 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Guillaume CAILLEAU, Ben RUSSELL
    • Synopsis
    • Taking its title from the tactical protest strategy of the same name – “an action that seeks to achieve an end directly and by the most effective means” – DIRECT ACTION is a contemporary portrait of one of the most important militant activist communities in France – a 150-person strong rural collective that survived multiple violent eviction attempts by the French state, successfully resisted an international airport expansion project, created an autonomous zone from 2012-2018, and spawned a remarkable new ecological movement in 2021.

      Through a collaborative and uniquely immersive observational approach, DIRECT ACTION documents the everyday of a diverse ecosystem of activists, squatters, anarchists, farmers and government-labeled “eco-terrorists” – so as to better understand how the success of a of a radical protest movement can offer a path through the climate crisis facing us all.
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