Rave on for the Avon

Followed by a Q&A in discussion with Charlotte Sawyer, film Director and Conham Bathing campaign group member and Natasha Padbury, Director of local community initiative Love Our Ouse

When the water company and local authorities fail the community, the wild swimmers of Bristol fight back through activism, swimming like a mermaid and getting married.

Do humans have the right to nature? In this tender film, director Charlotte Sawyer tells a story of a community of wild swimmers in Bristol (UK) affected by raw sewage pollution of the river Avon.

England is one of the only two countries in the world to have a fully privatised water and sewage disposal system, and with only 14% of English rivers in good ecological health, the mission to keep the rivers clean is not going well.

In a series of moving, exciting and thought-provoking scenes, the swimmers create a stunning, light-hearted yet fascinating tapestry, probing how activism starts from the grassroots, and carries a profound universal lesson for all of us. There's a wedding, drum'n'bass, an inflatable turd, and a whole lot of cheesecake in this poignant reflection on people's innovative battles for the natural world they cherish.