2019 | United Kingdom | Documentary

Here for Life (2020)

  • English 87 mins
  • Director | Andrea Luka Zimmerman, Adrian Jackson

STATUS: In Distribution

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They say freedom’s only possible when there’s nothing left to lose. But what, in the end, is the real cost of living? In a city framed by capital and loss, ten unruly Londoners navigate their wild and wayward way, travelling on their own terms towards a co-existence far stronger than ‘community’. On reclaimed land they find themselves on the right side of history, caught between two train tracks, the present tense and future hopes. They question who has stolen what from whom, and how things might be fixed, in an often contradictory rite of passage. Finding solidarity in resistance, they demand the right to go on. An uncommon story told on common ground, Here for Life dances with a spirited grace and urgency, hovering between fiction and fact, attention and act.

Sean Wai Keung on Andrea Luka Zimmerman's 'Here for Life', a poet;s response to the film: https://luxscotland.org.uk/programme/writing/sean-wai-keung-on-here-for-life

For more on the process of making please see here too: https://soundcloud.com/artangel-2/audio-hear-for-life

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