Everybody To Kenmure Street

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Everybody To Kenmure Street

May 2026

1h 38m

Documentary

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Anti-establishment struggles and activism run in the veins of Glasgow inhabitants. So when In May 2021, a U.K. Home Office raid is launched at dawn on the first day of Eid, it triggers one of the most spontaneous acts of civil resistance in recent memory. In Scotland’s most diverse neighbourhood, hundreds of residents rush to Kenmure Street to stop the deportation of their neighbours.

Critics Consensus

A spirited and uplifting documentary, Everybody to Kenmure Street triumphantly captures a community's witty, determined stand against injustice through the power of collective action.

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Alissa Wilkinson

New York Times

May 22

“Everybody to Kenmure Street” is an exceptional documentary, both in the story it tells and in the way it tells it, about what happened that day.

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Wendy Ide

Observer (UK)

Mar 17

The rough-and-ready aesthetic of this account of a grassroots act of resistance -- it is largely sourced from camera phone footage -- belies the film’s dexterous editing and elegant interweaving of social history and ripped-from-the-headlines immediacy.

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David Jenkins

Little White Lies

Mar 17

3/5

There’s definitely a rousing prescience to a film like this at such a politically precarious moment, and perhaps we should take this rare happy ending with a pinch of salt.

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Christopher Campbell

Nonfics (Substack)

May 25

It’s a creative work in addition to being important and inspiring, and that makes the latter traits more effective.

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Avi Offer

NYC Movie Guru

May 19

A mildly engaging, but too narrow, incomplete and ordinary documentary about an extraordinary event in British History.

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Tom Dawson

Radio Times

Mar 31

4/5

The film crucially places these inspiring events within Glasgow's rich history of principled protest.

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David H

May 26

Brilliant documentary very applicable to ICE, even though it's about Home Office Immigration in Glasgow Scotland! (I missed the first 10 minutes, for inadequately-documented location of theater—which I'll explain down-survey.)

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Stephen C

@bob25009 May 22

Real footage in 1 hour and 38 minutes.

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cyprien N

@cyprien May 20

Everybody to Kenmure Street is powerful, moving and deeply inspiring the story beautifully captures community courage and humanity showing how ordinary people can come together to make a difference with emotional storytelling and meaningful themes it leaves a lasting impact on the audience.

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Prim A

@RT40016115 May 2

looved - very informative and well done

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Felipe Bustos Sierra

Director

Kate Dickie

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Emma Thompson

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Keira Lucchesi

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Ciara Barry

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Synopsis

Anti-establishment struggles and activism run in the veins of Glasgow inhabitants. So when In May 2021, a U.K. Home Office raid is launched at dawn on the first day of Eid, it triggers one of the most spontaneous acts of civil resistance in recent memory. In Scotland’s most diverse neighbourhood, hundreds of residents rush to Kenmure Street to stop the deportation of their neighbours.

Director: Felipe Bustos Sierra
Producer: Ciara Barry, Felipe Bustos Sierra
Distributor: Icarus Films
Production Co: Screen Scotland, Barry Crerar
Genre: Documentary
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): May 22, 2026, Limited
Runtime: 1h 38m