venue
date
time
available
Muranów, Gerard
2025-05-12
20:15
Kinoteka, 3
2025-05-13
20:30
Kinoteka, 2
2025-05-15
13:30
Muranów, Ingrid + Pola
2025-05-16
18:00
Państwowe Muzeum Etnograficzne, screening room
2025-05-18
16:00
Half a century ago, the US government put Leonard Peltier in prison for murder. This year, he’s now home – but not yet pardoned, and still innocent.

In the early 1970s, the United States was roiled by protest: Vietnam, women’s rights, gay rights, black power and, rising up at the forefront, the American Indian Movement, AIM. Leonard Peltier was a young mechanic when he joined AIM to advocate for his people and quickly found himself swept up in a war between activists and the US government. “Free Leonard Peltier”, the new documentary from acclaimed directors Jesse Short Bull and David France, revisits the turbulent era of AIM, bringing alive the occupations, arrests, demands, and assassinations and culminating in the FBI’s descent onto the compound on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation where Peltier was staying. After two FBI agents are killed in the ensuing shootout, Peltier is arrested, tried, convicted of their murder and sentenced to two life terms in prison in one of the most notorious and discredited legal judgments in modern America.

Fifty years later, with Peltier newly out of jail by way of an end-of-term commutation (but not pardon) from President Joseph Biden, Native-led production “Free Leonard Peltier” arrives to revisit his case in a new era and to advocate for just what its title suggests.

duration:
110 min
country / year of production:
USA / 2025
director:
David France, Jesse Short Bull
cinematography:
Kyle Bell
production:
Jhane Myers, Paul Mcguire, Bird Runningwater / The Film Collaborative
selected festivals and awards:
2025 – Sundance FF, 2025 – Thessaloniki IFF - Silver Alexander Award
tags:
politics human rights USA activism

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