Everybody to Kenmure Street

3/15/2026

When a couple of Home Office immigration officials take two men into custody in Glasgow’s ethnically diverse Pollokshields district, they get a lot more than they bargained from from the quick-to-react locals. Before they can drive off with their prisoners, a man has slid under their van and attached himself to it’s axle. His part, depicted by Dame Emma Thompson - her face his words, and his increasingly uncomfortable conversations with a passing nurse (Kate Dickie) form the only dramatised part of this documentary as some one hundred and forty police officers ended up in a street of tenement buildings surrounded by some two thousand irritated and noisy Glaswegians. Is a showdown inevitable? Is a riot? There’s an impressive array of hand held photography used here to illustrate just how qu