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SCREENING: Everything Must Fall, a documentary

Sun, Dec 08

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919 NW 2nd Ave

An unflinching look at the #FeesMustFall student movement that burst onto the South African political landscape in 2015 as a protest over the cost of education. The story is told by 4 student leaders at Wits Univ. and Vice Chancellor, Adam Habib, a left-wing, former anti-apartheid student activist.

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SCREENING: Everything Must Fall, a documentary
SCREENING: Everything Must Fall, a documentary

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Dec 08, 2019, 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM

919 NW 2nd Ave, 919 NW 2nd Ave, Miami, FL 33136, USA

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An unflinching look at the #FeesMustFall student movement that burst onto the South African political landscape in 2015 as a protest over the cost of education.

The story is told by four student leaders at Wits University and their Vice Chancellor, Adam Habib, a left-wing, former anti-apartheid student activist. When Habib’s efforts to contain the protest fail, he brings 1000 police on to campus. There are dire consequences for the young leaders. By blending dramatic unfolding action with a multi-protagonist narrative, much of the drama lies in the internal struggles the activists have around the weight of leadership. Threaded through the film is a pulse of anticipation, shared across the generational divide, that somehow these youth have reached breaking point and won’t back down until they achieve the kind of social transformation that previous generations had long given up on.

 

"[T]he film portrays students as seeing themselves as…

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