The lives of young war reporters who travel to crisis spots at their own expense and risk their lives to shoot the picture that will change everything. A precarious job.
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.
Life on an exacting conveyor belt. This detailed puppet animation that sparkles with ideas is a scathing satire on our brave new working world that thinks the term “human resources” through to the end and invents a new running technique in the process.
The last French coal miners in charismatic photos. The present day holds only precarious jobs for the young generation. The end of work in suggestive images.
Three handcuffs, one nurse and 900 prisoners. Chief superintendent Walkiu and his Alpha-Team want to professionalise the prison – but end up running against walls.
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.
In your early twenties and no hopes of ever doing anything than stacking backbreaking loads of hay on trucks – being young in Tunisia. A film bursting with anger: rough, in your face, like a fist.
Nike, Samsung, H&M. Call centres, supermarkets, online shops. An ode to the women who produce what we consume, not just in Korea. Experimental, documentary, distressing.
Every year, a colourful bunch of utterly diverse characters meet to pick grapes near Toulouse. An unusual look at a precarious job between poverty and self-determination.
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.
A father, a son, a fishing boat and the polluted coast off Barcelona. The death of a tradition and the disease of civilisation. A short novel with charisma.
In the Colombian village of Marmato international corporations are fighting for the gold in the mountain and the locals for their existence. A globalisation thriller with strong characters.
A boy at play, a mechanic, a Buddhist Monk, and a soldier in training – masculinity, work, and social environments in Nepal, quietly and precisely observed.
