If you left Fahrenheit 9/11 feeling like the world was going down the tubes and there's nothing you can do about it, there's a new film just about to be released in the States that offers a positive, alternative way of seeing the world.

It's by Naomi Klein (author of No Logo and the marvellous Fences and Windows) and film-maker Avi Lewis, and is called The Take.

As the.nation.com reports:

'Filmed in Argentina over the course of eight months, The Take documents the beginnings of a new social movement that took place under the radar of the world's media. The recent economic crisis that shattered Argentina caused widespread dislocation and pushed more than half the population into extreme poverty. However, at two hundred factories, schools, supermarkets, and health clinics, something remarkable happened: rather than allowing their workplaces to be closed down, they turned these bankrupt businesses into productive, democratically-run cooperatives. The Take tells this story of working people forging genuine alternatives to the brutal economic realities of the Washington Consensus--a story whose implications are universal, and more important than ever.'

So far, it's only been shown (to much acclaim) at two festivals - in Beunos Aires and Venice. But now it will go on more general release in the US from October 5th. I shall find out whether/when it's due to come to the UK.

It's easy to be critical of everything from the iraq invasion to the effects of late-capitalism - but it's much, much harder to model positive alternatives, and that's where we Christians have a duty to be imaginative, creative and daring. People like Naomi Klein really do help to show us that an alternative worldview can not only be propagated - but also lived out.

To read excerpts from the Take, and a panel discussion with Naomi Klein and Avi Lewis, visit www.democracynow.org.

Read this week's review in the New York Times.

The film's offical website can be found at www.nfb.co/thetake.