Watch Fig Trees (2009) Online

FIG TREES is a documentary opera about AIDS activists Tim McCaskell of Toronto and Zackie Achmat of Capetown as they fight for access to treatment drugs. Documentary interviews, speeches, press conferences and demonstrations are sampled, taken apart, and set to music, replayed this time as operatic scenes. A surreal fictional narrative is intercut with the stories of their struggles against government and the pharmaceutical industry. In this fictional world, Gertrude Stein decides to write a tragic opera about Tim and Zackie and their saint-like heroism. She kidnaps them, transports them to Niagara Falls, and forces them to sing a series of complicated avant-garde vocal compositions. However, when Zackie ends his treatment strike and starts taking his pills, Gertrude realizes that there will be no more tragedy, and thus, no more opera. Read More

Watch Fig Trees online. Featuring Van Abrahams and Zackie Achmat, Fig Trees is classified as Documentary and Music genre movie with an average rating across the web of 5. It is available for streaming online in the USA The movie was filmed in Canada and was released on 2009. Fig Trees was directed by John Greyson,Ali Kazimi. Read Less