What Is Democracy (2018) | Wed 17 Oct | 8pm | 106mins
Suggested Rating: 12 | Language: English, English Subtitles
Venue: mac Birmingham
+ Post screening Q&A with Director Astra Taylor and Chaired by Steve Hewitt (Political Historian, Birmingham University) & other special guests + Reception @ 7:00pm.
Featuring a diverse cast, including celebrated philosophers, trauma surgeons, factory workers, refugees, and politician, What Is Democracy? connects past and present, emotion and the intellect, the personal and the political, to provoke and inspire. If we want to live in democracy, we must first ask what the word even means.
A searing analysis of who’s really in control. – Charlie Phillips, The Guardian.
