Mangrove premiere. The film, which is part of Steve McQueen’s Small Axe anthology for the BBC, opened the festival with screenings at the BFI Southbank, as part of the festival’s 12-day hybrid physical and online program.Mangrove tells the true story of the Mangrove 9, the group of Black activists who clashed with London police during a protest march in 1970 and their highly publicized trial that followed.
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