Sunday 20th March
Ultraviolence
Film showing + Q&A
Free/donations
Doors open 2pm
A film about the struggles for justice by the families of people killed by the police in the UK and the need for resistance to state violence.
The silence over the police killings of Black people is now broken. Since 1969, over two thousand people have died at the hands of the police in the UK. Shootings, chokeholds, batons, gassing, suffocation, restraint and brutal beatings are some of the methods used. The numbers of deaths is escalating. Inevitably police officers involved are not convicted for these killings. In this documentary, the families of the victims of police violence demand justice. They ask why society ignores human rights abuses by agents of the state. This reflection on resistance is poignant and political, capturing the brutality and trauma as well as the unrelenting fightback of those who will not be silent about state violence.
75 minute film followed by a Q&A with Janet Alder & the director Ken Fero.
Organised with Calderdale Trades Council.
For more information see: https://ultraviolencefilm.com/