White Riot White Riot

Rubika Shah / United Kingdom / 2019 / 80 min / English

Let film take you to a revolution!

Screenplay Ed Gibbs, Rubika Shah, Cinematography Susanne Salavati, Editing Jack Jones, Emma Corbett, Claire Winter, Sound Design Emma Butt, Music Connie Farr, Production Ed Gibbs, Cast Red Saunders, Dennis Bovell, Mykaell Riley idr.

festivals, awards Berlinale Generation 14plus - Special Mention of the International Jury, IndieLisoba International Independent Film Festival - Best Feature Film, Krakow Film Festival - Best Music Documentary, London Film Festival - Best Documentary

IMDb

Courage, music and resistance are words that describe the documentary film set in 1976. England is in flames. Fascism and Nazism, fuelled by the National Front, are increasingly more aggressive. Youth is divided too; even music becomes a symbol of political ideology. But punkers do not give up that easily. They establish RAR (Rock Against Racism), a political and activist movement that brings together musicians of different races and calls for changes in society. But the struggle against intolerance and repression is not over by far.

“White riot, I want to riot,
White riot, a riot of our own.”

- White riot, The Clash

With the support of The British Council Slovenia

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