directed by Maia Kenworthy and Elena Sánchez Bellot, United Kingdom, 2021, 82 min., original version with Italian subtitles

The story of a group of people who came together to demand an increasingly urgent change: starting with the launch of the Extinction Rebellion movement in 2018, we track the people at the heart of the movement as they face the ups and downs of the clash both with the status quo and internally within their own organisation. Unlikely bedfellows stretching from an international woman lawyer who is an expert in climate-related issues to a combative organic crop farmer, they strive to work together. Some are simply interested in fomenting trouble and in getting arrested while others, the youngest amongst them, see the struggle for the climate as an opportunity to rethink mutual relations and our relationship with the natural world. This fascinating film addresses the human and personal cost of social change.

Maia Kenworthy is an independent documentary filmmaker from London who has produced and directed films for charities and artistic organisations, and held creative workshops in schools and universities throughout the United Kingdom. Training in history and art, she has always had an interest in visual narrative and in the way in which it can put us in touch with one another. In 2018 she met the co-founders of Extinction Rebellion and spent the next four years immersed in the world of activism.

Elena Sánchez Bellot is an independent Spanish director and editor based in London, who aims in her work to capture the nuanced and complex ways in which we display our humanity. Her previous work includes films for such public-sector institutions as the National Housing Federation and the Arts Council England, as well as for private clients such as NBA, MTV and NBC. She holds workshops for directors and lectures at the  master’s degree course in Documentary Film at University College London. Rebellion is the first full-length feature film that she has directed.

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