105m; Italy
Director: Giuseppe de Santis
Cast: Carla Del Poggio, Lucia Bosé, Raf Vallone
Synopsis (Wikipedia): The film is based on a real story, an accident that happened in Rome, when a staircase fell down because of the weight of hundreds of women waiting for a job interview as a secretary
97m; U.S.
Director: Julie Dash
Cast: Angela Bassett, Peter Francis James and Tonea Stewart
Synopsis: Film biography of civil rights heroine Rosa Parks.
92m; Belguim
Director: Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne
Cast: Émilie Dequenne, Fabrizio Rongione and Anne Yernaux
Synopsis: Young and impulsive Rosetta lives with her alcoholic mother and, moved by despair, she will do anything to maintain a job. Set in Belgium. Both film and actress won major prizes in Cannes.
9m; Australia
Director: Adrian Francis
Synopsis: When the 9-to-5 shift ends and workers head home, Maia, an office cleaner, begins her workday. Adrian Francis accompanies her on her rounds as she ruminates on the solitary nature of her job, insisting that it is not a lonely one: She does not live with people themselves, but with the objects they have left behind.
30m; Turkey
Director: Güliz Sağlam, Feryal Saygılıgil
Synopsis: Documentary about the resistance of Emine Arslan, fired from the Desa Sefaköy factory in Istanbul, and the female workers who were fired from the Düzce factory. All the women who were fired are union members. The film reveals the working conditions of women, the experience they gain while organizing, the advantages of resistance, their relationship with the union, their hopes and expectations and the Istanbul Women’s Platform, which is in solidarity with them throughout the strike.
Contact: Güliz Saglam Documentary maker tel:0090 532 583 74 55 gulizsaglam@hotmail.com
43m; Senegal
Director: Djibril Diop Mambety
Cast: Lissa Balera, Aminata Fall and Tayerou M’Baye
Synopsis: African master Djibril Diop Mambety’s final film brings us the feisty Sili Lam, a twelve year old paraplegic who becomes the first girl to sell a daily newspaper in the competitive world of young male newspaper vendors. She takes on a policeman whom she accuses of shaking her down as well as the boys who taunt her. When some boys take her newspapers and crutches, and her friend asks her “What next?” she triumphantly responds, “We continue”. The scenes – moving, satiric and comic, are expertly played by non-professional actors to a score by acclaimed musician Wasis Diop (Mambety’s brother).
Contact: The film can be viewed here: http://www.fandor.com/films/the_little_girl_who_sold_the_sun
83m; Argentina
Director: Jorge Gaggero
Cast: Norma Aleandro, Norma Argentina and Marcos Mundstock
Synopsis (IMDB): A wealthy woman and her live-in housekeeper must adjust their entrenched routine and relationship when Buenos Aires is plunged into economic crisis.,
Year: 2007
Director: Charles Latour
Producer: Charles Latour
Country: Canada
Time: 60 Minutes
Every year, some 4000 migrant foreign workers coming mostly from Mexico labour in Quebec farms to plant and pick vegetables in Canada. In the summer of 2006 Patricia Perez, a pro-union militant speaking for the UFCW, launches a major drive to organize the workers in several farms South of Montreal. She struggles to protect them by bringing them under a union that would give them the same rights as Canadian agricultural workers. This film is about the injustices of globalisation, not in the Third World, but in Canada.
Director: Elsa Rassbach
Story of the women in the textile mills of Massachusetts in the 1840s; completed but has never aired?
http://www.commondreams.org/elsa–rassbach
106m; Italy
Director: Antonio Pietrangeli
Cast: Simone Signoret, Marcello Mastroianni and Sandra Milo
Synopsis: Neorealist comedy about four rebellious prostitutes who open a restaurant.
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