FROM 6 Oct
Angelheaded Hipster: The Songs of Marc Bolan
Ethan Silverman
Celebrating the life and work of glam rock pioneer Marc Bolan, combined with a behind-the-scenes look at the tribute album of the same name.
Olivier Magis’s understated documentary focuses on the efforts by the exiles’ descendants to affect a return to their Indian Ocean idyll – a campaign led from Crawley, home to some 3000 second-generation Chagossians, by a charismatic and indomitable NHS worker, Sabrina Jean, whose father was one of those treated so cynically half a century ago.
She strives to keep the flame of hope alive in her community with one single goal: to return home. But as the elders die out and memory fades, time is running out.