Rethink Rebuild Society is pleased to invite you to a screening of the film:
Selma (2015)
Directed by Ava DuVernay
Runtime: 2h 8min. In English. Certificate: 12
Where: RR Multi-facility room, Unit 7, Longsight Business Park, Hamilton Road, Manchester, M13 0PD
When: Sunday the 24th of April at 18:30pm
The screening will be followed by a short discussion in English.
Tea, coffee and biscuits are also provided. Donations encouraged to cover our expenses (£1 per person).
What can the Syrian people learn from black American’s struggle to achieve their civil rights?
The film:
This Oscar-winning film tells the story of Martin Luther King's dangerous campaign to secure equal voting rights for black Americans via an epic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in 1965, the march that resulted in President Johnson signing the Voting Rights Act of 1965, one of the most significant victories for the civil rights movement and a change that forever altered history. Fueled by a gripping performance from David Oyelowo, Selma draws inspiration and dramatic power from the life and death of Martin Luther King, Jr. but doesn't ignore how far we remain from the ideals his work embodied.
Heart-breaking and inspiring (The Guardian).
A scorching civil rights masterpiece (The Telegraph).
The film is about long-lived injustice, short-lived politics, and how to make the latter serve the former. (Vulture).
The result is a compellingly flesh-and-blood depiction of King; an absorbingly sophisticated account of his brand of non-violent activism. (The Big Issue).
So please bring your friends and come along to watch one of the best films of the year 2015, and to take part in a discussion on what Martin Luther King’s struggle tells us about non-violence as a means to achieve political goals.
