Labor Movies

Ji-eun, a part-timer at a convenience store, will be able to receive her much-awaited severance pay tomorrow.

A highly choreographed review of the Industrial Age as we know it today – an intense and playful roller coaster ride that demands the viewer...

In August 2012, mineworkers in one of South Africa’s biggest platinum mines began a wildcat strike for better wages. Six days later the police...

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

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

A poem by Prévert that talks about migrant workers who lose their freedom after entering a great/powerful country.

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.

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...

Black sleeping-car porters who worked on Canada's railways from the early 1900s through the 1960s were proud men and well-respected by their...

If you need it fixed – if you need it organised – if you don’t know how to do it – if you’re tired of doing it everyday...

Fasli is a child born and raised in Kampung Kalo, Lengko Ajang, Manggarai Timur, East Nusa Tenggara. This film is about Fasli and his family; a...

Documents the conflicts and tensions that arise between highland migrants and Mosetenes, members of an indigenous community in the Bolivian Amazon....

A study, in film animation, of a day in the life of a housewife, described without words, with a minimum of detail but with a perception all the more...

A satirical look at the plight of the day laborer in the United States.

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

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...

Shot with a mix of smartphones and GoPros, filmmaker Taku Aoyagi takes us on his daily bike rides as an Uber Eats worker. But pedaling on...

It's not her turn, but she's pregnant.

World War II created a huge demand for American farm products. But the war also caused vast numbers of farm workers to abandon the fields, either to...

This short documentary is a tribute to the unknown father. Emerging filmmaker Danic Champoux poses the question "How many men still have to uproot...