Direct action is a strategy of protest that refers to activism in which individuals or groups take immediate, non-intermediaried and more hands-on methods to achieve a goal, often using public forms of manifestations and strike.

For DIRECT ACTION, filmmakers Ben Russell and Guillaume Cailleau followed a militant activist community of squatters, anarchists, farmers for two years the ZAD, a rural autonomous zone, in Notre-Dame-des-Landes, France, a movement of people brought together by revolutionary vision, to live in such a way that addresses climate crisis. Composed of forty-one long takes the film takes the time to quietly assemble an immersive portrait of the movement and those involved alongside their activism through images of the maintenance of collaborative livingness, of farming and eating.
 
The opening screening on Friday 23 March, is followed by an in-person Q&A with filmmakers Ben Russell and Guillaume Cailleau.