Film Screening: To Kill a War Machine (2025)

Join us at Filmtheater Kriterion for a screening of the documentary To Kill a War Machine (2025), directed by Hannan Majid and Richard York, co-founders of Rainbow Collective. Through real-time bodycam and phone footage, frontline activists take audiences along on their audacious raids to tear down arms factories across the UK. Since 2020, the direct-action group Palestine Action has documented its operations to dismantle companies and infrastructure supplying weapons to the ongoing genocide in Gaza.

In July this year, Palestine Action was proscribed as a terrorist organisation by the UK government. As a result, the film’s UK theatrical release was blocked and the directors removed the online version. It is currently forbidden to screen this film or to support Palestine Action in the UK.

After the screening there will be a conversation with the Netherlands-based activists from organisations Fok Fokker and Geef Tegengas, moderated by Ayesha Ghanchi-Goemans.

This screening is organised together with Kate Cooper and Filmtheater Kriterion.