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EVERYDAY REBELLION

By Arash T. RIAHI, Arman T. RIAHI

Documentary - Completed 2013

Everyday Rebellion is a cross-media documentary about modern and creative forms of nonviolent protest and civil disobedience.

Festivals
& Awards

IDFA International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2013

CPH:DOX Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival 2013

CPH:DOX 2013 – Politiken Audience Award

ARS ELECTRONICA 2013

Solothurner Filmtage 2014 2014

Humans Rights Film Festival 2014

Karama HRFF 2014

IFF Tbilisi 2014

Take one action 2014

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- Year of production
- 2013
- Genres
- Documentary
- Countries
- AUSTRIA, SWITZERLAND
- Languages
- ENGLISH, GERMAN
- Budget
- 0 - 0.3 M$
- Director(s)
- Arash T. RIAHI, Arman T. RIAHI
- Writer(s)
- The Riahi Brothers
- ISAN
- 0000-0003-A62E-0000-D-0000-0000-Z
- EIDR
- 10.5240/1630-A402-AF21-D531-0920-D
- Producer(s)
- Arash T. RIAHI (Golden Girls Filmproduktion & Filmservice GmbH), Michael SEEBER (Golden Girls Filmproduktion & Filmservice GmbH), Sabine GRUBER (Golden Girls Filmproduktion & Filmservice GmbH), Hercli BUNDI (Mira Film), Susanne GUGGENBERGER, Vadim JENDREYKO
- Synopsis
- Everyday Rebellion is a documentary and cross-media project celebrating the power of creative nonviolent protest and civil disobedience.
  What does the Occupy movement in New York have in common with the Spanish Indignados protests or the Arab Spring? Is there a connection between the struggle of the Iranian democracy movement and the nonviolent uprising in Syria and what is the link between the Ukrainian topless activists of Femen and an Islamic culture like Egypt? And to top it off, what do Serbia and Turkey have to do with all this?
  The reasons for the various people’s uprisings in these countries may be diverse, but the creative nonviolent tactics they use in their struggles are strongly connected to each other. So are the activists who share these strategies, new ideas and established methods. Everyday Rebellion is a story about the richness of peaceful protest, acted out everyday by passionate people from Spain, Iran, Syria, Ukraine, USA, UK and Serbia. These methods are inventive, funny and sometimes even aggressive. And the activists who use them believe that creative nonviolent protest will win over violent protest – and they are right. Nonviolence has scientifically been proven to be more effective and successful than violent protest. And the users of nonviolence are feared because they are rapidly changing the world and challenging dictatorships as well as global corporations.
  Everyday Rebellion is a tribute to the creativity of the nonviolent resistance. The project studies the consequences of a modern and rapidly changing society where new forms of protest to challenge the power of dictatorships and sometimes also global corporations are invented everyday. Everyday Rebellion wants to give voice to all those who decide not to use violence to try changing a violent system. Because, as J.R.R. Tolkien similarly claimed, even the smallest action can change the world...
- Partners & financing
- Film Produced by:
  Golden Girls Filmproduction
  Mira Film
  Film funded by:
  Innovative Film Austria
  ORF - Austrian Broadcasting
  Film Fonds Vienna
  MEDIA development fund
  Swiss Federal Office of Culture
  Zurich Film Foundation
  George Foundation
  in co-production with
  ZDF/ ARTE
  SRG SSR
  SRF
  Presales
  ERT
  The Everyday Rebellion Crossmedia Project participated at:
  Power to the Pixel
  Steirischer Herbst
  DOK Leipzig
  Berlinale

EVERYDAY REBELLION

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