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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Tony Buba, a film maker from Braddock, Pennsylvania, tells the story of his hometown's decline (alon...
Words are loaded with meaning. Certain ones conjure joyful memories and others remind us of less hap...

This documentary visits cities and towns and captures stunning landscapes along Europe's majestic Da...

Makhmalbaf puts an advertisement in the papers calling for an open casting for his next movie. Howev...

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

Filmmaker Ulrich Seidl explores of the dark underside of the human psyche by entering Austrian basem...

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

A historical perspective to understand Neoliberalism and to understand why this ideology today so pr...
Presenter Holly Hamilton tells the feelgood story of the Glentoran team who left Belfast on a Europe...

They're young, unemployed and on the march - from Glasgow, Liverpool and Swansea to London.

Sean McAllister's bleak, extraordinarily intimate film offers an insight into the lives of 35 year o...