The Encampments

The Encampments (2025)

Inside America's student uprising.

Students flooded Columbia University’s lawn to create the Gaza Solidarity Encampment in order to pressure their university to divest from the US and Israeli weapons companies. The film follows the central organizers of the encampment as they are thrust into the spotlight, face violent police repression and suspension, congressional pressure, and a media firestorm, all while fighting to attain their goal of divestment at any cost.

Date of release
2025-03-28
TMDB
7.8 / 10 (10)
Runtime
1h 20m
Genres
Documentary
Director
Michael T Workman, Kei Pritsker

Casting

Interesting facts

The Encampments is a 2025 American documentary film directed and produced by Michael T. Workman and Kei Pritsker about the 2024 Gaza Solidarity Encampment and protest movement at Columbia University and other pro-Palestinian protests on university campuses during the Gaza war and genocide. Macklemore serves as an executive producer and it is distributed by Watermelon Pictures.

Production

In March 2025, it was announced that Workman and Pritsker had directed a documentary about the 2024 Columbia University pro-Palestinian campus occupations, with Macklemore set to executive produce and Watermelon Pictures distributing.

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