TOGETHER: Two inseparable deaf-mute friends hang to each other while working on the East End docks. This strikingly stylised movie poem taps into the silent movie era to portray its two leading characters isolation from hearing-unimpaired people.
SI, SE PUEDE, SEVEN DAYS AT P.A.H. BARCELONA: Since 2007, an estimated 550,000 foreclosures have been initiated in Spain. Given this acute housing situation, civil society has been forced to organise. In 2009 the PAH, the Platform for People Affected by Mortgages, was established as a citizen’s movement for the right to housing and in response to a housing emergency, using direct action and non-violent civil disobedience to stop evictions, occupy empty apartment blocks and re-house homeless evictions.
Discussion led by: Roz Cranston, Curato, BFI; Speaker on Housing. Doors open at 10.20 for 11am.
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