Director: Felipe Bustos Sierra. Runtime: 95min.

Captioned Screening

In May 2021, a UK Home Office dawn raid in the Glasgow district of Pollokshields, one of Scotland’s most diverse neighbourhoods, prompted local residents to rush to the streets to stop the deportation of their neighbours.  

As word spread in the early morning of what was Eid celebrations for many locals, a handful of protestors swelled to hundreds of people, flooding Kenmure Street and making it impassable to the immigration enforcement van. The eight-hour stand-off made international headlines as the community organised itself in an extraordinary act of peaceful solidarity. 

Executive Produced by two-time Oscar® winner Emma Thompson, Everybody To Kenmure Street paints a multifaceted picture of one of the most memorable moments in Glasgow’s recent history. Directed by BAFTA-winning Glasgow filmmaker Felipe Bustos Sierra, the film uses crowd-sourced footage from the day along with archive film and set-designed scenes captured by cinematographer Kirstin McMahon, featuring actors relaying verbatim the testimonies of contributors who wished to remain anonymous.

Felipe’s hit debut documentary Nae Pasaran (screened at the Hippodrome in 2018) told the story of how the boycott of East Kilbride Rolls Royce factory workers helped end Pinochet’s regime in 1970s Chile.