Everybody to Kenmure Street

Everybody to Kenmure Street (2026, 95 min) takes place on the morning of May 13, 2021, the first day of Eid al-Fitr, in Pollokshields — one of Scotland's most diverse neighbourhoods in Glasgow. The UK Home Office stages a dawn raid: two Sikh men of Indian origin are detained for deportation. Hearing the news through community message networks, neighbours rush into the street with almost no planning, surround the immigration van, and one protester crawls underneath it and stays there for eight hours. By the end of the day, more than two thousand people have gathered, the deportation is prevented, and the two men are released. The film assembles the material of this spontaneous, eight-hour act of civil resistance from participants' phone footage, archival material, reconstructed scenes, and the voices of those who were there. Everybody to Kenmure Street is directed by Felipe Bustos Sierra, a Chilean-Belgian filmmaker based in Glasgow — the son of a Chilean journalist exiled after the 1973 coup, whose previous documentary, Nae Pasaran (2018), told the story of Scottish factory workers who refused to repair Rolls-Royce jet engines in protest against Pinochet's regime. The new film is executive produced by Emma Thompson, who also appears in it, recreating one of the community's tactics by crawling under the immigration van herself. The original score is by Barry Burns of Mogwai. The film premiered in January 2026 at the Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Special Jury Award for Civil Resistance; it went on to open the Glasgow Film Festival to a sold-out audience, and screened at CPH:DOX in Copenhagen. It currently holds a 100% critical rating on Rotten Tomatoes. It isn't a film about heroes — it's about what a community can do when it realises, all at once, that it needs to be out on the street.