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The film documents the workplace struggle of women nursery workers set against the backdrop of the Black Protest mobilisation of women against the tightening of the abortion ban in the fall of 2016 in Poland. The film was made by Magda Malinowska, a member of the grassroots worker’s union, the Worker’s Initiative. Documentary | 49 min | Director: Magda Malinowska

Two years ago, the Perrin Industry Factory signed an agreement asking to senior-managers and workers to accept a pay cut, in order to save the company in exchange of the promise to protect their jobs. Today, the company takes the decision to close. The workers refuse the inevitable and try to save their jobs. Documentary | 113 min | Director: Stéphane Brizé

A series of films about workers struggles around the world.

‘One Day’is produced by the global Union federation Public Services International. It is a series of short films which attempt to capture an ordinary day in the extraordinary lives of public service workers, such as Younous, Reina and Georges.

Featuring over a dozen workers and spanning the globe, these films from the frontline feature struggles against privatisation, austerity and neoliberalism and campaigns for trade union rights, disaster preparedness and access to quality public services.

Short documentaries | 5-10 min | Director: PSI (Public Service International) | Language: different | Subtitles: English

As a young couple living together, Jiyoung works during the day and Woocheol works at night. The only time they can share is the one hour between 7 and 8 in the morning, when Woocheol comes back from work and Jiyoung is preparing to go to work. Feature short | 27 min | Director: Kim So-hyung | 2020 | Language: Korean | Subtitles: English

Minjoo is working in department 3 in HR and her contract is almost running out. Soo-ah is told by the boss to make sure that Minjoo is out before her contract must be renewed. Soo-ah is torn between her loyalty to the Boss and a growing sympathy for Minjoo. A film about how worsening conditions of employment and job security affect our relationships to people around us. Feature short | 34 min | Director: Haeil Chung | 2018 | Language: Korean | Subtitles: English

Minjoo is working in department 3 in HR and her contract is almost running out. Soo-ah is told by the boss to make sure that Minjoo is out before her contract must be renewed. Soo-ah is torn between her loyalty to the Boss and a growing sympathy for Minjoo. A film about how worsening conditions of employment and job security affect our relationships to people around us. Feature short | 34 min | Director: Haeil Chung | 2018 | Language: Korean | Subtitles: English

Yeonsu demonstrates against the pay cuts with her colleagues. The boss gives her a suggestion. Please email 2020@nlff.se for password to see the film. Feature short | 21 min | Director: Sooyeon Park | 2018 | Language: Korean | Subtitles: English

An assistant manager whose promotion is long overdue has to train a new employee who—or rather, which—is in fact an artificial intelligence. Throughout the course, the assistant manager gets caught up in the dark secrets of the corporation. A brand new Sci-Fi short film set in the near—er than one thinks—future. Please email 2020@nlff.se for password to see the film. Feature short | 23 min | Director: Su Jin Choi | 2017 | Language: Korean | Subtitles: English

If you are to do everything that is recommended, for example sleep eight hours every night, cook your own food and actively choose your pension funds investment. There is a deficit of 1 hour and 11 minutes every day. And this is even before you’ve started working 8 hours a day five days a week. This film explores why there is never enough time for those things most of us consider important, like work, school or love and family life. Feature short | 3 min | Director: Björn Perborg | 2017 | Language: Swedish | Subtitles: English

During a compulsory information meeting for unemployed people, the friendly face of a ridiculous, Kafkaesque bureaucracy exposes the truth behind unemployment.

Feature short | 5 min | Director: Björn Perborg | 2018 | Language: Swedish | Subtitles: English