Director: Richard Brouillette
Canada 2008, 160 min.

In his multi-award-winning 'The Encirclement', Richard Brouillette makes use of interviews with some of the big boys of the 20th century to get closer to neoliberal ideology and to analyse the mechanisms that come into play on a global scale, when the dictates of neoliberalism are put into practice all over the world. The starting point for the film is a leader in Le Monde Diplomatique, which in 1995 under the heading "the singular thought" expounded the problems of the world's prostration to neoliberalism. After extensive research, Brouillette started his enormous opus that has been no less than 12 years in the making. The film includes a broad selection of thinkers, from neoliberal advocates such as Donald J. Boudreaux and Jean-Luc Migué to critics such as Omar Aktouf and Noam Chomsky. All in all, thirteen significant personalities take part in the film, and all of them have been given the chance to present their opinions in equally long sequences.