WORK AFFAIRS
64 min
Online: Thu. 9.3., 20:00 / online available for 48 hours
Cinema: Sun. 12.3., 18:00 + Q&A / Historischer Saal, METRO Kino
Q&A with Ana Nedeljković & Nikola Majdak, Eugenie Bouquet and Asiye Sel (AK Frauenabteilung) , moderated by Lara Bellon and Waltraud Grausgruber
Too often, work becomes a place of exploitation, precarious conditions and excessive neoliberal demands. But work is also a place of hope, of dreams of a different future, where care and emancipation can take place. Work Affairs highlights the precariousness of contemporary working realities as well as the power of women who organise to fight against injustice, the achievements of those who struggle against all odds, and the creativity that is needed to find freedom and meaning.
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KAIKKI ÄITINI PUHELUT / ALL MY MOM’S PHONE CALLS
Iiti Yli-Harja , 2021, FI, 10 minutes
We get to know Maija through her phone calls. We see how she copes with the difficult things in her life, like alcoholism and autism, demanding family members, and various absurd situations that seem to follow her. Yet in the midst of this everyday chaos she also finds spaces of calm and serenity.

PAS AMOUREUX / NOT IN LOVE
Eugénie Bouquet, 2022, CH, 4 minutes
Two people are sitting on a bench in the Parc des Bastions in Geneva: Judith is a sex worker who talks about her experience with disabled clients; Eugénie is interviewing and recording her. An animated documentary about sex between people who are not in love.
UNSUNG WOMEN: ALICE GUY-BLACHÉ
Julie Gavras & Mathieu Decarli, 2021, FR, 3 minutes
This stop-motion series points to the invisibility process that women have been subjected to throughout history. UNSUNG WOMEN brings to light 30 women who helped to change the world. Despite their achievements, their name did not make history: they stayed in the men’s shadows. Here, we present three of them. We all know Lumière and Méliès, the g...


UNSUNG WOMEN: MILEVA EINSTEIN
Julie Gavras & Mathieu Decarli, 2021, FR, 3 minutes
After a bitter divorce, Albert Einstein switched from ‘we’ to ‘I’. Yet his correspondence makes it very clear that his greatest papers were written together with his ex-wife. But Mileva's name name didn’t appear anywhere, so she was quickly forgotten...

UNSUNG WOMEN: MILEVA EINSTEIN
Julie Gavras & Mathieu Decarli, 2021, FR, 3 minutes
After a bitter divorce, Albert Einstein switched from ‘we’ to ‘I’. Yet his correspondence makes it very clear that his greatest papers were written together with his ex-wife. But Mileva's name name didn’t appear anywhere, so she was quickly forgotten...

ANIMATE HER: LAKMINI WIJESUNDERA ON BUILDING GLOBAL TECH BRANDS
Irushi Tennekoon, 2022, LK, 4 minutes
Tech entrepreneur Lakmini Wijesundera started off in her parents’ garage and built her company guided by her passion for creating IT products and platforms with a global impact. By sharing her story, Lakmini advises other young founders to embrace risk and bear in mind that luck is derived from hard work.

INVISIBLE HANDS
Bekky O'Neil, 2015, CA, 3 minutes
The professional aspirations of a young fashion designer get crushed when she experiences the inner functioning and exploitative working conditions within couture design houses as an unpaid intern.

ORO ROJO / RED GOLD
Carme Gomila , 2021, ES, 12 minutes
Based on the protest of Moroccan women who pick strawberries in Huelva, this film builds a polyphonic account that appeals to the structural dimension of the conflict – migration policies, the fight against north to south global extractivism, racial capitalism – and helps us to reflect on the conflict’s complexity and its representation.

MUSIC OF SONNY
Klementyna Margolis & Anna Sałacińska, 2022, PL, 8 minutes
Almost as if suspended in time and space, the workers at a CD factory perform repetitive tasks. Yet these seemingly monotonous gestures at the production line offer the pretext for looking for meaning, purpose, and time within the system.

잘 진행되고 있습니다.. / GOING WELL..
HyeJeong Lee, 2021, KR, 4 minutes
The story of a writer who struggles to meet the deadline.

MONEY AND HAPPINESS
Ana Nedeljković & Nikola Majdak, 2022, RS, SI, and SK, 10 minutes
This film is not available in FR
The hamsters in Hamsterland can’t remember signing a work contract. Perhaps they were born here? Nobody knows. However, they love their jobs! Here statistics is religion and 100% of the population declare themselves to be happy. A capitalist dream, where everything and everyone finally dissolves into numbers and perfection.