Date/Time
Monday 14 July 2025
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Categories Film
Book here now: £9 full price • £7 or £5 if you prefer – please pay what you can*
The Encampments offers an urgent, intimate portrait of America’s student movement, ignited at Columbia University as students protested against their universities’ ties to the war on Gaza. Their actions sparked a nationwide uprising, with encampments spreading across hundreds of campuses. Featuring detained activist Mahmoud Khalil, alongside professors, whistleblowers, and organizers, the film captures the deeper stakes of a historic moment that continues to reverberate across the globe.
Watermelon Pictures’s synopsis:
When a group of students at Columbia University in New York launch a movement protesting the war in Gaza, they spark a nationwide uprising in solidarity with the people of Gaza. Encampments spring up at hundreds of other campuses as students object to their own university’s investment in the US and Israeli arms industry. Featuring detained student activist Mahmoud Khalil, The Encampments takes viewers inside America’s student uprising with incredible intimacy and urgency. Professors, whistleblowers, and student activists shed light on a moment that captivated the nation’s attention and continues to make headlines today.
Presented in association with Totnes Friends of Palestine
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