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.
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Following four Lakota families over three years, Homeland explores what it takes for the Lakota comm...
September 11, 1898: The imperial family’s personal physician, Dr. Herman Widerhofer, is deeply shock...
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...
Wolves divide and fascinate us. 150 years after they were driven to extinction in Central Europe, th...
Filmmaker Ulrich Seidl explores of the dark underside of the human psyche by entering Austrian basem...
This documentary visits cities and towns and captures stunning landscapes along Europe's majestic Da...
By combining actual footage with reenactments, this film offers both a documentary and fictional acc...
Johanna Dohnal, whose political career spans three decades, was one of the very first explicitly fem...
Makhmalbaf puts an advertisement in the papers calling for an open casting for his next movie. Howev...
A film about news, life and death. Before the media became so prevalent, we were concerned about ou...
They're young, unemployed and on the march - from Glasgow, Liverpool and Swansea to London.
In the sixties, Peter Handke was one of the first to show how the business works: the writer as angr...
How Germany was when its people entered the nightmare of World War II? Despair and fear lead a hungr...
The Habsburg Dynasty had ruled large parts of Europe and the world for 650 years. During World War I...
The film tells the story of Laxenburg from 13th century, when it was used for hunting and fishing tr...
In the spring of 1939, Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus embarked on a risky and unlikely mission. Traveling...
Ulrich Seidl applies his characteristically gentle eye to the wonderful people of his hometown of Ho...