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Films under consideration for the 2026 DC Labor FilmFest

MADE IN EU

2025; 1h 42m

A factory worker in rural Bulgaria becomes her town’s first Covid case, unleashing a wave of blame and social ostracism. As the virus spreads, she faces mounting persecution from employers, coworkers, family, and neighbors.

Director: Stephan Komandarev
Writers: Stephan Komandarev; Simeon Ventsislavov
Stars: Ivan Barnev; Francesco Frattini; Gerasim Georgiev

 

LOGAN LUCKY

2017; PG-13; 1h 58m

Two brothers attempt to pull off a heist during a NASCAR race in North Carolina.

Director: Steven Soderbergh
Writer: Jules Asner
Stars: Channing Tatum; Adam Driver; Daniel Craig

 

HIDDEN AGENDA

1990; R; 1h 48m

When an American human rights lawyer is assassinated in Belfast, it remains for the man’s girlfriend, as well as a tough, no nonsense, police detective to find the truth.

Director: Ken Loach
Writer: Jim Allen
Stars: Frances McDormand; Maurice Roëves; Robert Patterson

 

HARVEST

2024; 2h 13m

Over seven hallucinatory days, a village with no name, in an undefined time and place, disappears.
“Rich in atmospherics and thematic resonance, Athina Rachel Tsangari’s new film, starring Caleb Landry Jones and Harry Melling and adapted from the acclaimed novel by British writer Jim Crace, takes place in a remote village in medieval England marked by superstition and the scapegoating of outsiders.”
https://www.filmlinc.org/nyff2024/films/harvest/

Director: Athina Rachel Tsangari
Writers: Joslyn Barnes; Athina Rachel Tsangari; Jim Crace
Stars: Caleb Landry Jones; Harry Melling; Neil Leiper

 

FINIAN’S RAINBOW

1968; G; 2h 21m

An Irish immigrant and his daughter move into a town in the American South with a magical piece of gold that will change people’s lives, including a struggling farmer and African American citizens threatened by a bigoted politician.

Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Writers: E.Y. Harburg; Fred Saidy
Stars: Fred Astaire; Petula Clark; Tommy Steele

 

FAR FROM HOME (Dar Ghorbat)

1975; 1h 31m

This drama explores the grim lives of Turkish “guest workers” living in Germany.

Director: Sohrab Shahid Saless
Writers: Helga Houzer; Sohrab Shahid Saless
Stars: Parviz Sayyad; Cihan Anasai; Muhammet Temizkan

 

EL ARTE DE TABACO

1974, 6m
Cuban cigar making accompanied by the danzón Liceo del Pilar.

Director: Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
Writer: Mario García Joya

 

DEATH OF A BUREAUCRAT

Original title: La muerte de un burócrata
1966; Unrated; 1h 25m

A young man attempts to fight the system in an entertaining account of bureaucracy amok and the tyranny of red tape.

Director: Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
Writers: Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, Alfredo L. Del Cueto, Ramón F. Suárez
Stars: Salvador Wood, Silvia Planas, Manuel Estanillo

 

CLIKA

2026; R; 1h 22m

A small town musician pushes to carve out a place for himself in the new wave of Mexican-American music after a clip of him performing one of his songs goes viral.

Director: Michael Greene
Writers: Michael Greene, Sean McBride, Ski-ter Jones
Stars: Jay Dee, Daniel ‘Doknow’ Lopez, Uziel Pantoja Delgado

 

THE CLEANERS

Original title: Im Schatten der Netzwelt
2018; 1h 28m

A look at the shadowy underworld of the Internet where questionable content is removed. The documentary details the work experience of content moderators who have to decide which content needs to be removed by employing a moderation system for social media websites.[1]

The film won seven awards and was nominated for nine more. The Cleaners shines a light on a corner of the internet that is meant to be hidden from the average user. The film contrasts the poverty of those who work in content moderation and those in the technology profiting off of their labor.[2] Run Time: 88 minutes[2]

Directors: Hans Block, Moritz Riesewieck
Writers: Hans Block, Moritz Riesewieck, Georg Tschurtschenthaler
Stars: Mark Zuckerberg, Donald Trump, Nicole Wong

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cleaners_(2018_film)