Labor Movies

Through first person narration, Tari reveals personal stories related to her decision to work in Taiwan, her strained family relationships, the risks...

A Berlin street corner is slowly changing: an aging supermarket turns into a construction site and finally a new building. People restock shelves,...

Man-pulled rickshaw, which have served Kolkata for over eight decades face virtual extinction as a result of legislation introduced by the State...

Migrating is seldom an easy solution. It is rather a journey, that begins with a journey. After more than eight years of campaigning, the immigrant...

Behind the scenes of a popular deli on New York's Upper East Side, undocumented immigrant workers face sublegal wages, dangerous machinery, and...

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, girls aged 12 to 16 began working at Pyeonghwa Market. Running sewing machines, they also study the Labor...

The life of a female weaver is thrown onto the socio-political canvas of pre-war and post-war communist Poland through the use of expressive...

Lin, a migrant female worker from Cambodia, and Yeon-hee, a Korean, are friends who work together at a factory at night. One day, the two will go to...

Strong and independent Eliza works as the Polish teacher in a village school and begins an affair with local delinquent Stach. They have a child out...

An experimental documentary exploring the turn-of-century lynching of union organizer Frank Little in Butte, Montana.

Made in L.A. follows the remarkable story of three Latina immigrants working in Los Angeles garment sweatshops as they embark on a three-year odyssey...

Documentary about the working poor in Hongkong.

In the 1920s, Western Electric Company ordered a series of studies to be conducted at their plant in Cicero, Illinois. At first they wanted to see...

The lowest paid teachers in the nation are in the middle of a statewide walkout in Oklahoma. From start to finish, Walkout follows the teachers as...

It's a warm spring night, and the bee cowboys of Prince Edward Island begin rounding up their hives.

A blend of drama and documentary, this film follows several people caught up in the turmoil of the modern world. The drama centres on a woman who has...

A Widowed Plumber races against time to follow-up on the payment for his rendered service in order to save his critically ailing son.

Filmed in the Inner Mongolian portion of the Gobi Desert, this film follows a group of oil field workers as they go about their daily routine.

Pink Massage is a slow cinema feature that explores intimacy, labor, and moral ambiguity in contemporary Bangkok. Set against the backdrop of a city...