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Filmed over four years across kitchen tables, protests, and public meetings, Displace: The Battle For Dublin tells the story of a city fighting for itself as a broken property market ruthlessly chews up its citizens for profit – pushing out communities of every kind and leaving a generation trapped in their parents’ box rooms.
From evicted tenants to artists without studios, from market traders to mothers living in overcrowded accommodation, the film follows an emerging movement demanding justice, housing, and dignity.
Though rooted in Dublin, the forces at work are global: a financialised property system reshaping cities everywhere, treating homes as assets and people as obstacles.
Weaving through the lives of artists, residents, musicians, renters, academics, and activists, this urgent city symphony reveals an urban landscape shifting beneath their feet – and a people rediscovering their collective power, refusing to be pushed out or displaced.
Féile Derry Screening In The Nerve Centre On Thursday August 6th. 1900.
Féile Derry returns next week with another outstanding programme of films and documentaries at The Nerve Centre. Beyond delighted that Displace: The Battle for Dublin is screening alongside such strong work.
Other films to catch include Celtic Utopia, Shoot the People, Life Support, Journacide, The Time Is Now and The People’s Emergency Briefing.
This year’s programme explores the ongoing genocide in Palestine and Lebanon, the climate emergency, struggles for justice at home and abroad, the housing crisis, and Ireland’s folk renaissance.
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