Apprentices in the Bochum Opel works accompanied over the period of their apprenticeship: drilling, swotting, giving everything, being “Opelaners” – in times of job cuts and plant closures.
Mobile phones are the only connection to the outside world the workers of this Chinese asbestos mine have. Everyday routines, hard work, dreams and laughter in a smoking apocalyptic landscape.
Eggesin and elsewhere: committed people who work – without an income. The concept of citizen work reflected in a thoughtful and multilayered essay.
An entrepreneur and his employees try to get a fish factory running and fight the stranglehold of financial capital in a small US coastal town. A gripping story.
A small taxi company in Queens, its old boss and his drivers, daily routines and struggles for survival. Full of whacky Jewish humour – the common man’s Big Apple.
A long-term observation of Moldavian women, illegal and without rights, working cleaning and nursing jobs in Western Europe, and their children, who grow up without their mothers. A tragedy.
Once a miner, now a grumpy pensioner and professional chain-smoker, Pablo is supposed to give up nicotine. The end of a working life, carefully arranged and full of quirky humour.
Almería, the biggest fruit and vegetable production area in the world. Water shortages, illegal workers, the cucumber crisis and the destruction of nature in an instructive tragedy.
The last of the Mohicans at work: in a rattling ambulance on bumpy streets in the chaos of Sofia. A losing battle, but fought with wit and a cigarette dangling from their lips.
Palestinian women on their nocturnal way across the Israeli borderline. A hellish tour – all for a job. But also dreams and a laughter under cover in darkness
