'Children of the Revolution' Starts Festival Tour | The Irish Film & Television Network

The Irish/British/German co-production will screen on Friday, April 22nd at the Al Jazeera event followed by its UK premiere screening at the East End Film Festival and showings at the London Palestine Film Festival and Cannes Film Market.

‘Children of the Revolution’ tells the stories of Ulrike Meinhof and Fusako Shigenobu - two women who emerged from the student revolutions of 1968 to become the leading female revolutionaries of their time. Appalled by the killing in Vietnam, they set out to destroy capitalist power as respective leaders of the Baader Meinhof Group and the Japanese Red Army.

In the feature, writers Bettina Röhl and May Shigenobu explore the lives of their mothers, Ulrike and Fusako. They describe their own experiences of life on the run, of being kidnapped when their mothers went underground and they examine how their mothers’ actions have affected their own lives.

Shot in Tokyo, Beirut, Jordan and Germany in 2010, ‘Children of the Revolution’ is a co-production between Transmission Films, WDR and the Irish Film Board. The film was directed and produced by Shane O'Sullivan (RFK Must Die: The Assassinaton of Bobby Kennedy). Electric Sky handle the film’s international sales.

The documentary will screen at the Al Jazeera Documentary Film Festival in Doha on Friday, April 22nd. It will then receive its UK premiere at London’s East End Film Festival on Monday, May 2nd where Carmel Winters’ debut feature, ‘Snap’ will also show. The Cannes screening of the feature is an industry screening in the Cannes Market for film buyers. As the film premiered at Amsterdam’s IDFA documentary festival in November 2010, the doc is not eligible for the competition at the Cannes event.

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