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Brexitannia and Damned Dolls, World of Film International Festival, Websters, Sunday 1 October, 2017

The one and only screening of Brexitannia as part of the fourth World of Film International Festival at Websters.

Please note: Websters’ Bar and Bistro now reopened.

This is the first documentary on Brexit. Featuring Noam Chomsky, Saskia Sassen, Guy Standing, Nick Srnicek, Heidi Mirza & Federico Campagna.

Directed by: Timothy George Kelly
Russia / UK | 2017 | 80’ | Documentary

Websters, 415 Great Western Road, G4 9HZ

Synopsis:

On/off. Yes/no. Leave or Remain? While referenda always divide people, Brexit did so in a manner unprecedented in modern British history: old pitted against young, nationalists against migrants, the countryside against the city, and “the people” against “the elite”. But underneath these binaries we find human beings whose individual stories influenced the outcome of this historic and perplexing vote. In the referendum the UK was torn apart by debates over the great themes of our age: migration, waning empires, work and its decreasing relevance in an outsourced world that is becoming ever more automated.

BREXITANNIA is a portrait of a democracy in all its impossible and ugly glory. With subtle force, yet without judgement, it presents the people of a once powerful empire as they negotiate their identities in a world that is changing faster than ever and in which power appears to lie further and further from people’s own hands.

– Screened together with Scottish short film Damned Dolls by Sara Jane Kirkwood

UK | 2017 | 6′

With: Lee Hughes, Natalie McConan

Social worker Monica battles to reconnect with RC a lost adult child of the care system who has, for the moment, lost the plot.

“Brexitannia” and “Damned Dolls” screen at Websters Theatre, the main venue for this year’s festival. Websters is fully accessible.

Tickets are available directly from Websters 

Websters has a bar and a bistro and it’s situated on Great Western Road, which makes it a great venue for our fourth year!  More about Websters

More about the programme: woffglasgow.com. 

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