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R.M.N. (2022)

04 Jan

  Unrated; 2h 5m

Romanian New Wave auteur Cristian Mungiu (“4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days”) returns to masterful form with this drama, set in the filmmaker’s homeland and focusing on Matthias (Marin Grigore), a man who returns to his small village after walking off his slaughterhouse job in Germany, only to find the townspeople roiled by the presence of foreign workers. Ann Hornaday writes: “So much fear and misplaced anger are at play in Matthias’s increasingly hysterical behavior that ‘R.M.N.’ might as well be an X-ray of contemporary America.” (PG-13, 106 minutes.)

 
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Posted by on January 4, 2025 in 2026 Shortlist, Discrimination: Racism, Sexism, etc, Drama, Immigrants/Immigration, Migrant workers, Working Class

 

Between Two Worlds (2021) (Ouistreham)

04 Jan

Based on French journalist Florence Aubenas’s bestselling non-fiction work Le Quai de Ouistreham, investigating rising precarity in French society through her experiences in the northern port city of Caen.

‘Between Two Worlds’ Review: Juliette Binoche Goes Undercover

 
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Posted by on January 4, 2025 in A: New/Just Added, Discrimination: Racism, Sexism, etc, Drama, Global Economy, Immigrants/Immigration, Migrant workers, Service Workers, Women, Working Class

 

Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World (2023)

04 Jan

An overworked and underpaid production assistant drives around Bucharest to shoot the casting for a workplace safety video commissioned by a multinational company.

 
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Posted by on January 4, 2025 in 2026 Shortlist, A: New/Just Added, Comedy, Drama, Entertainment Industry, Technology, Temp/Precarious work, Working Class

 

A Fine Line (2017)

14 Jan

A film by Joanna James

The documentary A Fine Line explores why less than 7% of head chefs and restaurant owners are women, when traditionally women have always held the central role in the kitchen.

Featuring candid interviews with world-renowned chefs including World’s Best Female Chef Dominique Crenn, Emmy Award-winning TV host Lidia Bastianich, two Michelin-starred chef April Bloomfield, Iron Chef Cat Cora, World’s Best Chef Daniel Humm and many more, A Fine Line grapples with themes sparking national conversations right now, including workplace harassment, equal pay, paid parental leave and career advancement.

56 min. | SDH Captions | Scene Selection

 
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Posted by on January 14, 2023 in Service Workers, Women, Working Class

 

Company Town 

14 Jan

When the last factory in a small Rust Belt town closes its doors, an unlikely hero emerges in dutiful, quiet Allery Parkes. A career employee of the factory, the aging Allery, can’t reconcile how to live a life simply sitting at home doing nothing. Against the advice and pleas of his loving wife Lola, he forms an unlikely friendship with his charismatic neighbor Walter, in order to revive the defunct factory. As their community rallies around them – and as their former corporate bosses strategize how to implode this unexpected movement – Allery learns that he might be something he never thought possible: a leader.

Film info: Drama | 109 min | Director: Robert Jury | Country: USA | Language: English | Subtitles: Swedish

 
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Posted by on January 14, 2023 in A: New/Just Added, Drama, Manufacturing, Working Class

 

Triangle of Sadness (2022)

14 Jan

R; 2h 27m

A fashion model celebrity couple join an eventful cruise for the super-rich.

‘Triangle of Sadness’ satirizes the 0.01 percent, with queasy glee

Triangle of Sadness Is as Absurd as 21st-Century Capitalism Is

 
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Posted by on January 14, 2023 in 2026 Shortlist, A: New/Just Added, Comedy, Communism/Socialism, Drama, Philosophy, Service Workers, Working Class

 

Shoplifters

16 Feb

2018 ‧ Drama/Crime ‧ 2h 1m
Initial release: June 8, 2018 (Japan)
Director: Hirokazu Koreeda
Japanese: 万引き家族
Awards: Palme d’Or, Japan Academy Prize for Picture of the Year, MORE
Nominations: Cannes Jury Prize, Cannes Best Director Award,

On the margins of Tokyo, a dysfunctional band of outsiders is united by fierce loyalty and a penchant for petty theft. When the young son is arrested, secrets are exposed that upend their tenuous, below-the-radar existence.

 
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Posted by on February 16, 2021 in Cities-Urban, Drama, Temp/Precarious work, Unemployment-Wages, Working Class

 

9to5: The Story of a Movement

27 Jan

2020 1h 29min | Documentary | 1 February 2021 (USA)

They couldn’t kill their bosses, so they did the next best thing—they organized.

When Dolly Parton sang “9 to 5,” she was doing more than just shining a light on the fate of American working women. Parton was singing the true story of a movement that started with 9to5, a group of Boston secretaries in the early 1970s. Their goals were simple—better pay, more advancement opportunities, and an end to sexual harassment—but their unconventional approach attracted the press and shamed their bosses into change. Featuring interviews with 9to5’s founders, as well as actor and activist Jane Fonda, 9to5: The Story of a Movement is the previously untold story of the fight that inspired a hit and changed the American workplace.

Film website Director: Julia Reichert
julia@donet.com

 
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Posted by on January 27, 2021 in A: Highly Recommended Labor Films, A: New/Just Added, Discrimination: Racism, Sexism, etc, Documentary, Labor History, Women, Working Class

 

Docs & the World

05 Oct

Barcelona blog devoted to social and environmental documentaries.

“We have just started a series of posts about films that deal with the question of work in capitalism. We think these films can help to build up the working class conscience so sorely needed nowadays. Unless there is a new, global working class consciousness, underprivileged classes (increasingly extended) are doomed to be crushed by the sheer destructive power of capitalism. With this post we begin an overview of documentary and fiction films that can help to build up, through denunciation and example, that conscience and solidarity more needed than ever.”

Joan Sole
ducs06@hotmail.com
 
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Posted by on October 5, 2019 in A: New/Just Added, Arts/Culture, Communism/Socialism, Documentary, Working Class

 

The Great Strike 1917

05 Oct

Trailer
70 minutes.

Documentary about events which shaped Australian society and the labor movement for a century and beyond.

Synopsis
Thousands had stopped work, the government recruited volunteers to break the strike, allowing them to bear arms; unions were deregistered and union leaders charged with conspiracy. It was a time of violent emotions, state violence and individual acts of violence by and against strikers. A striker was shot and killed. A filmmaker had his film embargoed. It was Sydney, 1917.

The world was in the grip of “The Great War”. Rail and tram employees had been forced to work longer hours, with reduced wages and conditions. With the introduction of a new American ‘timecard’ system, tramway and railway workers in inner Sydney walked off the job in protest, triggering the strike.

The stoppage became the biggest industrial upheaval Australia has seen before or since. At its height the strike stopped coastal shipping, mining, stevedoring and transport, and involved tens of thousands of workers in Australia’s eastern states.

Despite being a crushing defeat at the time, it had lasting consequences for the Australian labor movement. It was 100 years ago, but personal stories rarely spoken about were to filter through, reflecting on both the trauma and the positive legacy of the event, which still strongly resonate today.

WEBSITE

Mandy King
cavadini@tpg.com.au
M: 0410 633 503

 
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Posted by on October 5, 2019 in A: New/Just Added, Documentary, Industrial/Mine/Manufacturing, Labor History, Strikes-Strikebreaking-Lockouts, Transportation, Working Class

 
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