Filmmaker: Angelo Defanti
Brazil | 2015 | Documentary | 20 minutes
Marcelo on a cloudy day in Rio de Janeiro.
2015 Brazilian International Labour Film Festival
Category Archives: Genre
Open Eyes (2013)
Filmmaker: Martin Aletta
Argentina/Japan | 2013 | Fiction | 15 minutes
Tokyo. Ryo goes to his job at the railway company where he’s task is remove the remains of the railroad due to the numerous suicides. Saki, a young girl, wanders around her city contemplating an apathetic society. Her walk drives her to the platform of station where Ryo finds her…
2015 Brazilian International Labour Film Festival
The Seaman (2014)
Filmmaker: Ting-Ging YU
Taiwan | 2014 | Fiction | 18 minutes
Acen’s girlfriend, Yuli, is a caregiver, and she always waits for him to come back; Anan misses his home in Indonesia by viewing the sea. One day, he meets Dora. They fall in love with each other, and Anan feels the love of a girl who comes from his homeland.
2015 Brazilian International Labour Film Festival
Second Class (2013)
Filmmakers: Marta Dauliute and Elisabeth Marjanovic ́ Cronvall
Sweden/Lithuania | 2013 | Documentary | 60 minutes
“Do you feel cheaper?” We are filming Lithuanian migrant working men in Sweden. They do not want to be on camera, they do not want to participate in creating one more media image for guilt and pity. They film us. We empty a bottle of moonshine, we dance on their porch. They might let us film them tomorrow.
Through sincere and frustrating negotiation to get access to film the migrant workers, Second Class becomes a discussion about class, the value of work and human. While showing the filming process film raises questions about power relations in film industry itself.
2015 Brazilian International Labour Film Festival
Ya Wooto (2014)
Filmmaker: Jenny Cartwright
Canada/Burkina Faso | 2014 | Documentary | 68 minutes
From his village to the big city, Sylvain is trying to make it in Ouagadougou, the capital city of Burkina Faso, one of the world’s five poorest countries. There, he found a job as a bar manager at Le coin des Amis, a “buvette” owned by Hortense, a policewoman trying to make ends meet. Work is home for Sylvain: he works seven days a week and sleeps in the backroom. He has only one thing in mind: saving up enough money to get his driver’s license. If he succeeds, he could drive a merchandise truck, a job that would allow him to find a wife and start a family. In Burkina Faso, you are not really an adult until you are married. That is why he saves 100% of the 20$ he makes every month. In a year’s time he will have saved up enough cash to start his lessons.
2015 Brazilian International Labour Film Festival
The Gold Of Faso (2015)
Filmmaker: Dragoss Ouedraogo
Burkina Faso | 2015 | Documentary | 62 minutes
Since 2009, Burkina Faso knows a situation of “mining boom” after a campaign of geological exploration and an incitement of foreigner investments. But thanks to a favourable mining code and a discriminatory legislation, this “mining boom” looks like a huge operation of looting the resources of the country, enriching the managers of this network and droping the populations loosing their grounds.
The Gold of Faso does not shine for every body and the anger grows.
2015 Brazilian International Labour Film Festival
Elf (2015)
Filmmaker: Ting-Ging YU
Taiwan | 2015 | Fiction | 18 minutes
Yen is an albino. She struggled through study and became a teacher. Hao-hao wrote to Yen and told her that he finally got a job. Ah-chih suffers from physical handicaps and creates great paintings. The director compares those who suffer from physical handicaps but being hard-working like angels sent by God.
Sant’anna (2014)
Filmmaker: Angelo Defanti
Brazil | 2014 | Documentary | 20 minutes
“But the thing is, if a guy is a writer and want to write about his reality, this reality will be imbued with the fact that he is writer”. André is Sérgio’s son.
2015 Brazilian International Labour Film Festival; http://www.bilff.org
Crisis Document. A Survival Guide (2015)
Filmmakers: Elisabeth Marjanovic ́ Cronvall and Marta Dauliute
Sweden, 2015, Documentary, 15 minutes
Recipe for fascism: Half a generation unemployed, doctors forced to choose whom to treat, social security disappearing, the public on discount.
We ask our friends in Greece to make a list of their images of the euro crisis. It becomes a warning list for the North.
2015 Brazilian International Labour Film Festival; http://www.bilff.org
Pay Slip Shut Down (2014)
Filmmaker: Lee Salter
United Kingdon | 2014 | Documentary | 10 minutes
A film documenting the struggles of precarious workers to receive full pay from the hospitality industry in Brighton. This documents one such struggle, led by Solidarity Federation against a cafe that was not paying.
2015 Brazilian International Labour Film Festival
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