Everybody to Kenmure Street

A quiet dawn raid on a Glasgow street swells into a huge protest that showcases the power of community in Bustos Sierra’s exhilarating documentary.

In one of Scotland’s most ethnically diverse neighbourhoods, a UK Home Office-instructed dawn raid to deport two men triggers a community stand-off as thousands of neighbours, friends, strangers and activists swarm to the street to barricade the exit.

A winner at Sundance and Cannes, Bustos Sierra weaves together crowd-sourced footage from the day, news reports and dramatised scenes to assemble a forensic account of the moment that a community took on the government and won. Also starring Emma Thompson as ‘Van Man’ who wedged himself beneath the van to prevent it from moving.