Summer Cinema: La Haine

“So far so good… So far so good… So far so good.”

Hate breeds nothing but more hate. La Haine, a raw and visually explosive portrait of racial and cultural tensions in contemporary France, follows twenty-four hours in the lives of three friends in a rundown Parisian suburb, the day after a wave of street riots was harshly suppressed by the police. Director Mathieu Kassovitz’s cinematic manifesto against violence remains as relevant today as it was thirty years ago.

Vinz, a Jew; Hubert, an African; and Saïd, an Arab, aimlessly loiter in a hopeless concrete jungle. Deep within this trio of young men, who represent thousands of young people from immigrant families in France, defiance against marginalisation smoulders until it reaches an inevitable boiling point. Their friend Abdel is fighting for his life as a result of police brutality. Will he succumb to his injuries? Will the boys take revenge on the police officer responsible using his own weapon?

La Haine
Director: Mathieu Kassovitz
France, 1995, 97 min
in the original language with Czech & English subtitles

Free Entry

Summer cinema returns to MeetFactory for the fourteenth time. A curated selection of eleven films will be screened in the Factory's backyard, as selected by the members of the venue's team. In June and July, the screenings begin at 9:30 p.m.; in August and September at 8:30 p.m. Before the film, the current exhibitions in MeetFactory Gallery and Kostka Gallery can be visited free of charge. A bar is available on site, and admission to all screenings is free.

More information can be found here.