‘And Tomorrow the Entire World’ movie review: A riveting insight into the antifa movement

Writer-director Julia von Heinz’s German political thriller presents an authentic account of contemporary antifa groups, by suitably portraying the non-violent aspects of their resistance

In 2017, historian Mark Bray set out to do something never tried before: he tried to ‘define’ antifa, a movement deeply rooted in the early 1900s as an opposition to the rise of dictatorial leaders like Mussolini and Hitler. In his book, Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook, Bray wrote, “The job of the anti-fascist is to make [fascists] too afraid to act publicly and to act as volunteer targets for their hate and attacks, which might keep them from thinking about burning down the mosque in their neighborhood.” . Picking up from the where discourse ends and lived experiences begin, director Julia von Heinz embarks on a different journey. In a world haunted by the omnipresence of far-right, fascist political and social organisations, And Tomorrow the Entire World invites revolutionaries to navigate the eternal conflicts of a young activist. The film is her inquiry into a deceptively simple question: what does it mean to be an anti-fascist?