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 historical perspective to understand Neoliberalism and to understand why this ideology today so pr...

Johanna Dohnal, whose political career spans three decades, was one of the very first explicitly fem...
Words are loaded with meaning. Certain ones conjure joyful memories and others remind us of less hap...
Documentary film about four families in Pori, Finland, all struggling with unemployment and poverty.

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

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

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” ...
This film journeys deep into the heart of Austria’s favorite daily newspaper, the Kronen Zeitung, th...

They're young, unemployed and on the march - from Glasgow, Liverpool and Swansea to London.
The Idle Ones is a profile of contemporary affairs - somewhere on the edge of Europe - in a place wh...

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

In Baden-Baden, Nayo Titzin follows the producers of the opera Don Giovanni, created for the Innsbru...

Endphase tells the story of one the last WWII massacres which was not spoken about for 75 years. In ...

A working day in Austria, 2004. Nine modern working-class heroes are engaged in their daily struggle...

"Austria - First Victim of National Socialism" - this is the core theme of the self-image of the cou...

The story of an asylum seeker in England who, when confronted with the hostile immigration system in...

Shadows of Light combines the loud and soft tones of life. The centerpiece is an Austrian mountain p...

SFRJ is officially a place where everyone have a job and a house. The story follows hard labored wor...