Rise Up - Haunted By Nightmares, Looking For Dreamers

About the film

Together with five extraordinary political heroines, “Rise Up” seeks answers to the devastating ecological, economic and authoritarian developments of our time.

It is said that every social progress had to be struggled for by courageous people – but how did they succeed? Can the enormous global crises of the present even be overcome? Driven by questions, doubts and visions, the film wanders through wild imagery, through the promises of happiness of modernity, freezes in the face of overpowering enemies, lives through resistance, failure and new beginnings. And we begin to understand – due to the inspiring stories of five people who were involved in overwhelming social upheavals. They struggle to find answers, along with the film’s authors and the audience. They trace the point at which people begin to resist. The point at which the decision is made to leave normality and certainty behind in order to dare to do something completely new.

Language versions: EN voiceover / EN subs | ES voiceover / ES subs Production: Freischwimmer Film / leftvision

Directors: Marco Heinig, Steffen Maurer, Luise Burchard and Luca Vogel

Links

• Official website