Bates Film Festival – Everybody to Kenmure Street

dir. Felipe Bustos Sierra
95 min. | 2026

The Bates Film Festival is a Maine-based gathering where students and attendees engage in civic-minded conversations and experience thought-provoking movies in community. The 2026 BFF will focus on the arts and how their representation in film brings individuals together, promotes mutual respect and understanding, and heightens civic engagement.

All events are free and open to the public in order to welcome a broader audience. Our festival is unique in that it is organized and programmed by Bates College students under the direction of Professor Jon Cavallero.

Everybody to Kenmure Street (dir. Felipe Bustos Sierra, 2026)

Everybody to Kenmure Street follows the true story of an impromptu protest started in Glasgow, Scotland, after immigration enforcement attempted to detain two Muslim men. In an act of defiance, the neighborhood began a mass protest to prevent their deportation. Using found footage, hand-held recordings of the event, and even stand-in actors, the film tells the complicated legacy of Glasgow as both a city of historical oppression and social justice. (Written by Claire Orfield, ’26)

Awards: World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award, Civil Resistance, Sundance Film Festival; Nominee, Grand Jury Prize, World Cinema – Documentary, Sundance Film Festival

Image Courtesy of Icarus Films