# Where to watch Fig Trees (2009) in the UK

> Fig Trees (2009) is not currently listed on any UK streaming, rental, or purchase service. Last verified on 4 May 2026 by ScreenSearch.

**Type:** Film  
**Year:** 2009  
**Runtime:** 100 minutes  
**TMDB rating:** 5.0/10  
**Genres:** Documentary, Music  
**Region:** United Kingdom (GB)  
**Last verified:** 4 May 2026 (2026-05-04T00:14:34.224Z)  

## Synopsis

FIG TREES is a documentary opera about AIDS activists Tim McCaskell of Toronto and Zackie Achmat of  Capetown as they fight for access to treatment drugs. Documentary interviews, speeches, press conferences and  demonstrations are sampled, taken apart, and set to music, replayed this time as operatic scenes. A surreal fictional  narrative is intercut with the stories of their struggles against government and the pharmaceutical industry. In this  fictional world, Gertrude Stein decides to write a tragic opera about Tim and Zackie and their saint-like heroism.  She kidnaps them, transports them to Niagara Falls, and forces them to sing a series of complicated avant-garde  vocal compositions. However, when Zackie ends his treatment strike and starts taking his pills, Gertrude realizes  that there will be no more tragedy, and thus, no more opera.

## Streaming options in the United Kingdom

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**Where can I watch Fig Trees in the UK?**

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