WTO/99

2026 The Popcorn List

DIRECTOR

GENRE

LANGUAGE

COUNTRY

YEAR

Run time

WEBSITE

Ian Bell

Documentary (History)

English

USA

2025

102 Minutes

SYNOPSIS

An archival documentary that depicts the 4-day clash between the then-emerging World Trade Organization (WTO) and the 40,000+ people who took to the streets of Seattle in 1999 to protest the WTO Conference and the WTO’s impact on human rights, labor, and the future effects of continued globalization.

WORLD PREMIERE

True/False Film Festival 2025

"In a moment of extreme precarity and justified mistrust of political leadership and the systems that put them in place and keep them afloat, this snapshot of a moment in time is a powerful reminder of the strength of collective action told through a propulsive archival film. The recontextualization of these historical artifacts gives a voice to masses and allows blowhard and blowhard to hoist themselves on their own petard—an incredibly satisfying (if enraging) experience."
Ben Delgado
ReFocus
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