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<li>Year: 2018</li>
<li>Film Format: DCP, Blu-ray and DVD</li>
<li>Origin: Canada</li>
<li>Runtime: 107</li>
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<li>Language: English</li>
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<p>Coming at a moment of profound political and social crisis,<em> <strong>What
Is Democracy?</strong> </em>reflects on a word we too often
take for granted.</p>
<p>Director Astra Taylor’s idiosyncratic, philosophical journey
spans millennia and continents: from ancient Athens’
groundbreaking experiment in self-government to capitalism’s roots
in medieval Italy; from modern-day Greece grappling with financial
collapse and a mounting refugee crisis to the United States
reckoning with its racist past and the growing gap between rich
and poor.</p>
Featuring a diverse cast—including celebrated theorists, trauma
surgeons, activists, factory workers, asylum seekers, and former
prime ministers—this urgent film connects the past and the present,
the emotional and the intellectual, the personal and the political,
in order to provoke and inspire. If we want to live in democracy, we
must first ask what the word even means.<br>
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From the director of <em><strong>Zizek!</strong></em> and <strong><em>Examined
Life!</em></strong><br>
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<strong>WHAT IS DEMOCRACY? opened in theaters on January 16, 2019.<br>
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A Zeitgeist Films release in association with Kino Lorber. To book
this film please contact Nancy Gerstman or Emily Russo or call
212-274-1989. For educational purchase please visit
KinoLorberEdu.com.<br>
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