Direct Action (2024)
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Directors
Guillaume Cailleau, Ben Russell
A rural French activist community confronts a plan to build an international airport.
The story
The film follows a rural community of 150 people in France as it resists a project to build an international airport in 2018. Using a collaborative, immersive approach, it captures the community’s everyday lives and the authorities’ view of its members as “eco-terrorists.”
Full plot (contains spoilers)
The film tells the story of one of the best-known activist groups in France. It is a rural community of 150 people that resisted a project to build an international airport in 2018, established a self-governing zone (2012–2018), survived several eviction attempts, and launched a new environmental movement in 2021. The film uses a collaborative, immersive approach to capture the everyday lives of people whom the authorities consider “eco-terrorists.”
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