Take One Action Film Festival

Take One Action - the UK's first major activist film festival - takes two this year. The activist festival which takes place in both Edinburgh and Glasgow is all about people and movies that are changing the world.

The second Take One Action film festival will showcase more than 20 new films on global and environmental justice themes from Nepal to Ecuador. Ranging from Madonna's hotly debated Cannes debut I Am Because We Are (17 and 21 Sept) about poverty vs. dignity in Malawi to Scottish union boss Matt Smith's take on a very rare screening of Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times (22 Sept), from hilarious corporate spoof team The Yes Men Fix the World (25-27 Sept) to Sundance favourite Crude (17-19 Sept), the festival aims to reclaim cinema as a forum for social and political engagement.

Each screening is accompanied by audience-led discussion with directors or leading speakers from the worlds of development, politics and the media.

There is a launch party at the Bongo Club on 17 September, 11pm-3am with performance by Wester Hailes hip hop duo Northern Xposure (tickets £5/£4 available on door).

Festival director Simon Bateson calls the festival "a unique chance for audiences to become the action heroes. Our hilarious, enraging and world-changing line-up of films is just as much about getting bums off seats as on them."

The Films

• I Am Because We Are
  
• Crude
  
• The Sari Soldiers
  
• Orange Revolution
  
• Rang de Basanti
  
• Another World is Possible
  
• The Age of Stupid
  
• Home
  
• Reporter
  
• Nauru
  
• Let’s Make Money
  
• The Hunger Season
  
• Robots
  
• The Yes Men Fix The World
  
• Taking Liberties
  
• Angels in the Dust
  
• Modern Times
  
• Born into Brothels
  
• Addicted to Plastic