We, The Hated + Q&A

Hull Independent Cinema is screening We, The Hated at Middleton Hall on Tuesday 3 November, with the film followed by a live in-person Q&A with the director. The screening starts at 19:30.

We, The Hated is an intimate documentary portrait of Just Stop Oil activists, chronicling the group's high-profile actions between 2022 and 2025. Director Rich Felgate gained rare insider access to the movement, and the film opens and closes with phone calls he makes to Indigo Rumbelow, the group's co-founder, while she's serving a prison sentence. Through figures like a soup-throwing young activist, a vicar who blocks traffic, and an older woman balancing protest with family life, the film asks what personal sacrifice for climate action really costs, raising questions about dissent, government crackdowns and the fragile boundaries of democracy. It runs for 89 minutes.

It's had a busy run on the festival circuit this year. It opened at Sheffield DocFest 2026, was nominated for Best Feature Film at the Jackson Wild Media Awards, and has screened at the Folkestone Documentary Festival and the Central Scotland Documentary Festival 2026. The activists' lives were also the subject of a 2026 BBC documentary, What on earth would you do?.

The Q&A after the screening brings the director and producer in person to answer questions, so you'll get to hear from the people who spent years inside the movement. The whole thing is at Middleton Hall on Tuesday 3 November, starting at 19:30.