Take One Action Film Festivals returns for 2025 with Real Utopias coming to Dundee this November.
Returning for its 17th edition, Take One Action Film Festivals have announced their 2025 theme, Real Utopias, and an inspiring programme bringing communities together to harness the transformative potential of film and storytelling for collective change.
The festival will arrive in Dundee from Fri 7- Sun 9 November exploring a more just and liberated future through stories of communities taking renewable energy into their own hands, decolonising a library, celebrating trans joy, paying tribute to local radical histories and more. The programme promises glimpses of utopian futures already within reach and explores how we can grow these futures in Scotland, together.
To make their events more accessible, Take One Action operate a sliding scale ticket policy with attendees choosing what to pay based on their personal circumstances from £0-£20. When you pay a higher price for a ticket, you help subsidise a ticket for someone on a lower income.
Real Utopias Dundee programme:
- Radical Library Tours: Current Utopias // Fri 7 Nov, 3–4pm: A chance to see all the opportunities to think, create and imagine with Dundee Central Library.
- Radical Library Tours: Past Utopias // Fri 7 Nov, 4–5pm: Discover some past utopias throughout Dundee’s history, and how they shaped the city we know today, at Dundee Central Library.
- Power Station // Fri 7 Nov, 6–8.25pm: Two artists and activists are on a mission to power their street with solar energy, one home at a time.
- How to Build a Library // Sat 8 Nov, 11.30am–1pm: In Nairobi, Kenya, two women are on a mission to transform and decolonise a dilapidated library into a public space that truly serves its community.
- Red Skirts on Clydeside // Sat 8 Nov, 3–5.30pm: A documentary about the hidden stories of women’s activism in the Glasgow Rent Strikes of 1915, presented by Living Rent.
- NIÑXS // Sat 8 Nov, 6-8.30pm: In this joyous documentary co-authored by its subject, fifteen-year-old Karla tells her coming-of-age story as a young trans girl in Tepoztlán, Mexico.
- Knit’s Island // Sun 9 Nov (times TBC): Three curious film-makers step virtually into a post-apocalyptic online game, and learn from other players how survivalist gameplay can create a sense of community.
