Name: It's a Free World (Directed by Ken Loach) - Film Screening and Discussion
Start: 2022-09-28T19:00:00+01:00
End: 2022-09-28T21:15:00+01:00
Location: Rethink Rebuild Society

It's a Free World (Directed by Ken Loach) - Film Screening and Discussion

Rethink Rebuild Society (RR) is a Manchester-based charity that works towards improving the lives of refugees, asylum seekers, and immigrants, in particular but not exclusively Syrians in the UK, helping them become positively established within British society.RR began informally after the start of the uprising in Syria in March 2011. In May 2013 it was formally registered as a company limited by guarantee in England and Wales (Company No. 08528808) and then registered as a charity in England in Wales in April 2018 (Charity No. 1177807)Our work is executed by a team of employees and community volunteers, and we depend on the contributions of RR members and donations from RR friends.

Rethink Rebuild Society

Rethink Rebuild Society screens another Ken Loach film, about workers, poverty, migration and exploitation.

<p>Rethink Rebuild Society invites you to its monthly film screening:</p><p></p><h1>I﻿t&#x27;s a Free World (2007)</h1><h2>Directed by Ken Loach</h2><h3></h3><h3>F﻿ollowed by open discussion</h3><h3>I﻿n English with English subtitles</h3><h3>D﻿uration: 1 hr 35 min</h3><h3>C﻿ertificate: 15</h3><p></p><p><strong>P﻿lease attend on time as the screening will start at 7.15pm promptly.</strong></p><p></p><h2>T﻿he Film:</h2><p>After being unfairly sacked from her job, Angie decides, with the help of her friend Rose, to set up her own recruitment agency, taking advantage of London&#x27;s large migrant worker population.</p><p></p><p></p><p>&quot;This being a Loach film, it’s also a cruel world, populated by capitalist tools and fools, schemers and dreamers of every stripe, accent and ethnicity. In “It’s a Free World ...” it’s the war of all against all yet again, this time with fistfuls of filthy pound notes and mouths crammed with speeches and broken promises&quot; (The New York Times)</p><p></p><p>&quot;It is an action, of course, intended to stand for all of us who easily feel sorrow for suffering individuals but, if not happily, then at the very least complacently, exist within and benefit from a system that depends on global exploitation of economically weak countries and people without choices.</p><p>Loach, as ever, resists the temptation to supply neat solutions and happy endings where there are none&quot; (The Guardian)</p><p></p><h2>K﻿en Loach</h2><p>N﻿o introduction needed. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p>

It's a Free World (Directed by Ken Loach) - Film Screening and Discussion

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