From Executive Producer Macklemore, The Encampments offers an urgent, intimate portrait of America’s student movement, ignited at Columbia University as students protested their universities’ ties to the war on Gaza. Their actions sparked a nationwide uprising, with encampments spreading across hundreds of campuses.

The film Features detained activist Mahmoud Khalil, alongside professors, whistle-blowers, and organizers, the film captures the deeper stakes of a historic moment that continues to reverberate across the globe.

The film will be followed by a conversation with Dr Nick Riemer and Professor John Keane who are academics at the University of Sydney and long-time advocates of freedom and justice for Palestinians.