We are thrilled to welcome directors Ben Russell and Guillaume Cailleau for a talk after the screening!

Direct Action is a contemporary portrait of one of the most high-profile militant activist communities in France: a 150-person strong rural collective that successfully resisted an international airport expansion project in 2018, created an autonomous zone between 2012 and 2018, survived multiple violent eviction attempts by the French state and spawned a new ecological movement in 2021.
Using a collaborative and immersive observational approach, the film documents the everyday lives of a diverse ecosystem of activists, squatters, anarchists, farmers and those labelled by the government as 'eco-terrorists'. Can the success of a radical protest movement offer a path through the climate crisis?