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"Arrest, propaganda and deportation can’t stop a movement. In a country where peaceful demand for divestment is a radical criminal activity and genocide is business as usual, The Encampments is the eye-opening inside story of the Columbia student uprising that the media didn’t want to tell."
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A event held at The Cube on Tuesday 1st July. The event starts at 20:00.
Director Kei Pritsker, Michael T. Workman, 2025, USA, 1hr 21mins, Cert: 15
Tue 1 July // 20:00
Tickets: £5 cubecinenma.com
The Encampments chronicles the Columbia University Gaza Solidarity Encampments that began in April 2024. As students faced police raids, media attacks and political condemnation, their movement spread to universities across the world.
Through exclusive footage and intimate interviews, The Encampments captures the passion, resilience, and challenges faced by students who risked everything to demand justice. The documentary includes access to the student organisers at several encampments, and also a whistleblower from high-up in the administration of an Ivy League university who reveals the tactics that institutions took to discredit the calls of their own students.
The film features Mahmoud Khalil, the US permanent resident who the Trump administration has since moved to deport for his role in the protests despite not being charged with a crime.
"stirring and intense" Tara Judah, Sight and Sound
"a vital reminder of what so many are actually protesting" Josh Slater-Williams, Little White Lies
Doors open 30 minutes before advertised start time. All film screenings are ad-free and 18+ unless otherwise stated, and start with no more than a 10 min selection of trailers.
The Cube is a membership venue, please remember to bring your card. You can join on the door for £1.
Entry requirements: 18+
Tue 1 July // 20:00
Tickets: £5 cubecinenma.com
The Encampments chronicles the Columbia University Gaza Solidarity Encampments that began in April 2024. As students faced police raids, media attacks and political condemnation, their movement spread to universities across the world.
Through exclusive footage and intimate interviews, The Encampments captures the passion, resilience, and challenges faced by students who risked everything to demand justice. The documentary includes access to the student organisers at several encampments, and also a whistleblower from high-up in the administration of an Ivy League university who reveals the tactics that institutions took to discredit the calls of their own students.
The film features Mahmoud Khalil, the US permanent resident who the Trump administration has since moved to deport for his role in the protests despite not being charged with a crime.
"stirring and intense" Tara Judah, Sight and Sound
"a vital reminder of what so many are actually protesting" Josh Slater-Williams, Little White Lies
Doors open 30 minutes before advertised start time. All film screenings are ad-free and 18+ unless otherwise stated, and start with no more than a 10 min selection of trailers.
The Cube is a membership venue, please remember to bring your card. You can join on the door for £1.
Entry requirements: 18+