Taking the demise of a textile factory in Austria’s Waldviertel region as its starting point, with the antiquated manufacturing plant initially shown in full operation, this film poses the question of what work means for people’s self-image and character. After the factory goes bankrupt and closes, the filmmaker accompanies some of its employees as they continue to make their way, questioning them about their daily routines, the circumstances in which they live, about looking for work or the new jobs they find. One woman’s situation is precarious, but that doesn’t prevent her from bringing up her grandchildren. Another woman works here and there, flexible and resourceful. One man blossoms visibly in his newly unemployed state. Bit by bit, different aspects of their private lives and personal misfortunes emerge.

A Zen priest in San Francisco and cookbook author use Zen Buddhism and cooking to relate to everyday...

A documentary about the closure of General Motors' plant at Flint, Michigan, which resulted in the l...

Tony Buba, a film maker from Braddock, Pennsylvania, tells the story of his hometown's decline (alon...

By combining actual footage with reenactments, this film offers both a documentary and fictional acc...

A staged TV portrait of the Austrian cartoonist Gerhard Haderer; and first collaboration with Maria ...

Johanna Dohnal, whose political career spans three decades, was one of the very first explicitly fem...

An international tech entrepreneur with a fondness for architecture asks Rem Koolhaas to build a hou...

Wolves divide and fascinate us. 150 years after they were driven to extinction in Central Europe, th...

This is the story of a team of 40 agents facing 4,000 job seekers at a job centre in the Parisian su...

With a history of intrigue, romance, opera, festivals, old world grandeur, Austrians blend tradition...

This documentary visits cities and towns and captures stunning landscapes along Europe's majestic Da...
Documentary film about four families in Pori, Finland, all struggling with unemployment and poverty.
This film journeys deep into the heart of Austria’s favorite daily newspaper, the Kronen Zeitung, th...

In 1984, eleven miners entrenched themselves underground to protest for better working conditions in...

Filmmaker Ulrich Seidl explores of the dark underside of the human psyche by entering Austrian basem...
A documentary produced by the French armed forces which chronicles the way of France’s “1ere armée” ...
Words are loaded with meaning. Certain ones conjure joyful memories and others remind us of less hap...

With the energy of the dying, those in power apply themselves to reasserting the value of work – wit...

A film about news, life and death. Before the media became so prevalent, we were concerned about ou...

The Show Must Go On is a personal journey behind the scenes that confronts the epidemic of mental he...