2024 /  

Finalist

IF THE STREETS WERE ON FIRE

Director & Producer: Alice Russell,

 Gannesh Rajah, Julia Nottingham

As youth violence rises in London, a wild and rebellious community of young people tear up the city’s streets in the name of ‘knives down, bikes up’. As they try to escape the harsh realities of street life through the brotherhood of biking, their already precarious existence is jeopardised when they are forced away from the safe spaces of central London.

12-year-old Tatheer embarks on a week-long Police boot camp for girls from a social housing estate in Copenhagen. Far from home, deep in the woods, she navigates grueling rituals, elusive social dynamics, and personal setbacks to find her place in this tender and revealing coming-of-age story.

2023 |  

71 min

UK

Languages: English

AWARD:

Finalist

Type:

Doc Feature

Themes:

Creative Activism, Uprising, Human Rights

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