Harri Shanahan & Siân A. Williams | 2021 | UK | 92’ | EN subs

Cavia is proud to show Rebel Dykes once again, in all its ass-kicking, leather-wearing glory! Followed by a Q&A session moderated by Dr. Hilla Dayan, professor at the University of Amsterdam. It will be an online talk with Ellyott, who made the soundtrack of the film and who can also tell us about the punk/squatters scene in Amsterdam during the 80s.

‘A rabble-rousing documentary set in 1980s post-punk London, UK. The unheard story of a community of dykes who met doing art, music, politics and sex, and how they went on to change their world. A heady mash-up of animation, archive footage and interviews tells the story of a radical scene: squatters, BDSM nightclubs, anti-Thatcher rallies, protests demanding action around AIDS and the fierce ties of chosen families. This is an extraordinarily privileged glimpse into a bygone world by those who not only lived out their politics with heartfelt conviction but lived to tell the tale’. Jay Bernard, BFI Flare, 2021

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