Radical Ecology Presents: A Story of Bones (12A)

Sun 17 Nov 2024

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Rated 12A

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£9* | £5* students/under 25s

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2pm

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Radical Ecology Presents: A Story of Bones (12A)

Dir. Joseph Curran & Dominic Aubrey de Vere
2022 | 95 mins | USA, UK


As the Environmental Officer for Saint Helena’s troubled £285m ($360m) airport project, Annina Van Neel learned of the island’s most terrible atrocity – an unmarked mass burial ground of an estimated 9,000 formerly enslaved Africans in Rupert’s Valley. It is one of the most significant traces of the transatlantic slave trade still on earth.

Haunted by this historical injustice, Annina now fights alongside renowned African American preservationist Peggy King Jorde and a group of disenfranchised islanders – many of them descendants of the formerly enslaved – for the proper memorialisation of these forgotten victims. The resistance they face exposes disturbing truths about the UK’s colonial past and present.

Join Radical Ecology after the screening for a discussion with some of the team behind the film.



BBFC Rating

Rated 12A – infrequent strong language, racism


VENUE: EXETER PHOENIX, STUDIO 74


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