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‘Everybody to Kenmure Street’ Review: A Timely Document of Scottish Neighbors Standing Up to Immigration Raids

Feb 1, 2026 7:00am PT ‘Everybody to Kenmure Street’ Review: A Timely Document of Scottish Neighbors Standing Up to Immigration Raids Winner of a special jury award for civil resistance, the Sundance documentary captures and embodies community resistance. By Siddhant Adlakha Plus Icon Siddhant Adlakha Latest ‘When a Witness Recants’ Review: A Powerful Documentary Uses Animation and New Interviews to Redraw a Decades-Old Injustice 5 days ago ‘In the Blink of an Eye’ Review: Andrew Stanton’s Sci-Fi Epic Is One Third of a Good Movie 5 days ago ‘Undertone’ Review: Ian Tuason’s Audio-Driven Horror Debut Screams Technical Proficiency 1 week ago See All Courtesy of Sundance Institute As images of ICE raids and reactionary protests dominate global headlines, Felipe Bustos Sierra’s documentary “Everybody to Kenmure Street” acts as a vital contextualization of Scottish history and of recent community action in the face of uniformed overreach. Chronicling an impromptu demonstration in 2021 in a sleepy Glasgow enclave, the film wields its combination of archival footage, re-enactments, social media clips and contemporary interviews to highlight the fabric of a neighborhood coming together to protect two of its own, while tensions build between the people and state.

Everybody to Kenmure Street

Everybody to Kenmure Street

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Key Highlights

  • Related Stories 'Dexter: Resurrection' Season 2 to Be First Project Filmed at Manhattan's Sunset Pier 94 Studios Five minutes can be an eternity in montage time, but the movie’s lengthy introduction is a daring announcement of historical scope.
  • Its opening frames — of old photographs of suffragettes, sketched maps of slave routes and TV footage of ’70s union rallies against the Thatcher government — help couch its modern (and distinctly ordinary) citizenry within the kind of extraordinary political traditions and sordid histories we all secretly possess.
  • By the time the central premise fades into view, and a U. K.
  • Immigration Enforcement van sits outside an unassuming brownstone, Bustos Sierra and editor Colin Monie have already invigorated the viewer.
  • Popular on Variety The Pollokshields area in Glasgow, home to a heavily Muslim community, falls victim to one of the U. K.
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