Reel Lives: Everybody to Kenmure Street

In May 2021, a UK Home Office dawn raid triggers one of the most spontaneous and successful acts of civil resistance in recent memory.

In Pollokshields, Scotland’s most diverse neighbourhood, hundreds of residents rush to the streets to stop the deportation of their neighbours. Everybody to Kenmure Street is an intense, ground-level, and ultimately joyous account of the standoff with the police and the UK Home Office.

Winner of the World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award at the Sundance Film Festival, BAFTA-winner Felipe Bustos Sierra’s documentary celebrates collective action, looking to the stories that led to that day and the historic events that have shaped this community. Emma Thompson is among the film’s executive producers, which also features music from Barry Burns of Mogwai and the Glasgow Gaelic Choir.

Felipe Bustos Sierra | United Kingdom | 2025 | 98 mins | 12A