This month’s theme is focussing on the G8 countries that control policy and economics across the world. The feature film is Genoa Red Zone’, (described below), alongside this will be footage from the recent protests that have taken place at the G8 summit in Evian, France. After will be a talk with one of the filmmakers.

In July 2001 leaders from the world’s most powerful nations (G8) met in the Italian port of Genova. Encircled by a vast steel fence and declared ‘off limits’ – the city centre became the forum for a brutal and bloody weekend. Despite unprecedented levels of security over 300,000 protesters joined forces to highlight their frustration at increasingly dictatorial, profit-hungry systems of government spearheaded by the G8

This film does not hide from the truth: Staggering images of violence provide gritty realism yet the beauty of resistance shines through. Despite the repression, a multitude of voices were heard in Genova. Landless Peruvian peasants stood side by side with Sicilian cheese farmers, national boundaries overturned, as a global body of people demanded a world built on social and environmental equality. That flame – it appears – is impossible to extinguish.

Working with over 160 hours of protest-based footage recorded by scores of D.I.Y video teams, an international group of film-makers from Italy, Ireland and the UK set out to unpick the events surrounding those brutal Genova days. This film presents a radical narrative of the build-up to the events, presents the protests at street level and concludes with the long-term struggle for justice in the aftermath of the demonstrations