Spread over two venues, Trinity Centre and The I'll Repute, Bristol Radical Film Festival returns this October 21st – 23rd for its 10th event, celebrating political, activist, and experimental filmmaking. This year’s programme combines urgent contemporary political subjects with an eclectic mix of archive gems, including a revisit to the successful campaign against Margaret’s Thatcher’s Poll Tax, Eric Cantona’s celebration of politically militant footballers, struggles against gentrification in contemporary Marseille, and a resistance/revenge thriller set in 19th Century Ireland.

La Bataille de la Plaine/Battle of La Plaine
(Sandra Ach, Nicolas Burlaud, Thomas Hakenholz, 2021,
France, 70mins)

Marseille, a European city like many others. La Plaine, a lively neighbourhood, a large square, a historic popular market. A tumultuous battle between, on the one hand, the town planning department of the city council and, on the other hand, some of the inhabitants, who demand to be associated with the decisions. An epic story that lasted three years. Neighbourhood television has refused to stop at the report of a defeat and asks : Can the cinema narrate what we have experienced and which does not appear in the winners' narrative? How can we create enthusiastic political imaginations for tomorrow, on which others can build?

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