Side by side images - on the left a white man with Mississippi flag shirt gesturing to his left. On the right a Black woman gesturing to her right.

Side by side images - on the left a white woman looking to the left. On the right a white man wearing a shirt with a Confederate flag insignia gesturing to his right.

Side by side images - on the left a white man sitting in front of a Confederate flag looking to the left. On the right a white woman in a dark sweatshirt looking to her right.

Side by side images - on the left a Black woman with an anti-Confederate flag shirt speaks to crowd facing left. On the right, a white man speaks to a crowd facing right.

Side by side images - on the left a white man in a Confederate shirt shouts into a microphone facing to the left. On the right a Black man shouts into a megaphone facing to his right.

LOOK AWAY, LOOK AWAY

A film about a flag, and a reckoning in Mississippi

PRODUCED AND DIRECTED BY PATRICK O’CONNOR

When the horrific murder of nine Black churchgoers in Charleston, South Carolina in 2015 sparks a national reckoning around the meaning of the Confederate flag, battle lines are drawn in Mississippi to determine the fate of the last state flag to include the most powerful, and divisive, symbol of our fractured history.

In Look Away, Look Away, director Patrick O’Connor introduces us to a diverse array of activists, and captures the fierce five-year battle that led to the removal of the Mississippi state flag, revealing how race, heritage and long-simmering grievances over the Civil War shape our sense of who we are as Americans.