The Line We Crossed

Sea Change Cafe, Ocean Road, 5th July @ 4:30pm

Ticketing details: coming soon

Watch the trailer here

As we fail to address the climate crisis, activists cross the line into civil disobedience with chilling consequences for their lives and our protest rights.

The Line We Crossed is a British story of dissent, drawn from the frontlines of climate resistance. Through the experiences of those who stood in defiance, it traces the quiet unravelling of our protest rights. The film challenges audiences to question what makes dissent effective and where the line of acceptability is.

Directed by Liz Smith, an award winning British documentary filmmaker, her work is centred around human rights issues. The films she is making at Page75 Productions are the outcome of years of study on the issues driving the rise of populism and the erosion of our democratic rights. However, researching the issues can only go so far. Her approach of spending time with affected communities on the frontline delivers a much deeper understanding of the forces driving these trends.

In addition to The Line We Crossed, she is the director of the feature documentary I Am Gen Z, which won Best Feature Film at the Lower East Side Film Festival and The Conspiracists, documenting the profound and unsettling impact of conspiracy theories on individuals and society. She is currently in post-production on her next feature documentary, The Humanitarians, which examines the growing threats to the human right to asylum in Europe.

Liz will be taking part in the Q&A session following the screening.