2024; 100 minutes; US
Follows former and current workers of Amazon, as they form the Amazon Labor Union, and take on the company to form a union.
Directed by Brett Story & Stephen Maing
Category Archives: Working Class
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
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
ORWELL 2 +2=5
2025; R; 1h 59m
An investigation into the life, work, and enduring influence of the writer George Orwell, connecting his ideas to the contemporary world.
Director: Raoul Peck
Writer: Raoul Peck
Stars: Damian Lewis, George Orwell, U Win Khine
Rolling Papers (Pikad Paberid)
2024; 1h 38m
Director: Meel Paliale
Writers: Meel PalialeUrmet Piiling Stars: Mihkel Kuusk; Karl Birnbaum; Edgar Vunsh
A portrait of European youth as they navigate life in their twenties, grappling with uncertainty and searching for purpose.
Working Class Heroes (2022) Original title: Heroji radnicke klase
1h 25m
A group of illegal construction workers, left without money and basic rights, fight their bosses with all they have left, building a hoax “Potemkin’s village” to con a development fund. Close to deadline it’s a fight for life and death.
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Haymarket: The Bomb, The Anarchists, The Labor Struggle (2021)
1h 25m
The Chicago Haymarket tragedy, where a bomb thrown into the ranks of Police was followed by an eruption of panic and violence resulting in a trial and execution of presumably innocent workers’ rights activists, is examined in this feature documentary film. Expert historians and professors present the history of the bomb, the anarchist movement of the 19th century, and the labor struggle of working people fighting for a shorter work day during the industrial might of America’s Gilded Age.
Adrian Prawica @ FILMADRIA
Director | Executive Producer | www.filmadria.com
773-724-0867 | 847-894-3849 – Direct
filmadria@gmail.com | IMDB Profile
About Some Meaningless Events (1974)
Not Rated; 1h 16m
In search of a subject for their film, a group of directors ask passers-by about their expectations of Moroccan cinema in the streets and bars of Casablanca.
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A Suppressed Masterwork of Moroccan Political Cinema
Room Without A View (2021)
1h 13m
The film is a kaleidoscopic gaze on the exploitative working conditions experienced by migrant domestic workers hired under the Kafala system in Lebanon. Meagre wages, manipulation and a room without windows. Lebanon’s countless maids fight back against the mechanisms of modern slavery.
Director: Roser Corella
Local 1196: A Steelworkers Strike (2023)
59 minutes
“The old American dream just seems to be gone,” says Walt Hill, a longtime United Steelworkers Union member and the Contract Coordinator for Local 1196 in the decaying steel town of Brackenridge, Pennsylvania.
Local 1196 takes the viewer on the ground as days on strike turn to weeks, weeks turn to months, and union leaders realize they’re playing with a short stack, and against long odds.
Screen here and/or read more. Directed by Samuel George
Samuel.george@bfna.org
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