Everything Must Fall

An unflinching look at the FeesMustFall student movement that burst onto the South African political landscape in 2015 as a protest over the cost of education The story is told by four student leaders at Wits University and their Vice Chancellor Adam Habib a leftwing former antiapartheid student activist When Habibs efforts to contain the protest fail he brings 1000 police on to campus There are dire consequences for the young leaders By blending dramatic unfolding action with a multiprotagonist narrative much of the drama lies in the internal struggles the activists have around the weight of leadership Threaded through the film is a pulse of anticipation shared across the generational divide that somehow these youth have reached breaking point and wont back down until they achieve the kind of social transformation that previous generations had long given up on