To celebrate the release of Welcome To Leith, which arrives in cinemas in the UK on February 12th, Metrodome have proved us with an exclusive clip from the movie.
The film tells the story of a small town in North Dakota that suddenly became populated by white supremacists.
Here’s the plot in full.
The film tells the story of the tiny prairie town of Leith, North Dakota, saw its population of 24 grow by one. The newcomer was Craig Cobb, a notorious white supremacist. Quietly snapping up plots of land, he planned to take over the town government and establish Cobbsville, a haven for white separatists. In organizing a rally of supremacists and neo-Nazis and courting them to take up residence, Cobb does not endear himself to Leith. As his behaviour becomes more threatening, tensions soar, and the residents desperately look for ways to expel their unwanted neighbour.
This chronicle of a rural community’s struggle for sovereignty amidst extremism quite cleverly maneuvers us into an uncomfortable confrontation with our own values. Like the residents, we feel our anger escalate, but as disturbing and hateful as his racist attitudes are, Cobb is afforded certain protections under the law.
The unsettling underpinning of WELCOME TO LEITH is how we wrestle with our democratic principles when they’re pushed to the limit.
Check out the clip below, and the film in cinemas from Friday.
