Thursday 15 January, 6pm
Dir. Pete Knapp, UK, 2025, 58 mins.
FIRES AND FASCISM is a new 57-min documentary that shows wildfires in Europe are more than just climate change and mismanagement. It links the growing wildfires of Europe with past fascism, big business, organised crime, and the far right. It showcases how communities are engaging in direct action, protest, rewilding, and suppressing the uncontrollable fires and the far right.
The film features the experiences and actions of 25 people across Greece, Italy, Spain, and Portugal, ranging between scientists, teachers, artists, gardeners, engineers, winemakers, NGOs, and authors.
The screening will be followed by a Q&A with Pete Knapp, director of Fires and Fascism, who shifted careers from air quality research to filmmaking to tell the story of people recovering from wildfires. This is Pete's first film, made on a shoestring crowdfunded budget with the aim of showing the broader links between wildfires and capitalism and to help start local action to unite people in a time of growing division.

Location: Plymouth Arts Cinema

Event's page / Booking page link: https://plymouthartscinema.org/whats-on/fires-and-fascism-12a/