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SUMMARY:Canadian Labour International Film Festival
DESCRIPTION:Mayworks Momentum presents selections from the Canadian Labour International Film Festival.\nThe Canadian Labour International Film Festival (CLIFF) is in its 17th edition and Mayworks will again present a local satellite screening of short films chosen from this year’s CLIFF selections. \nCLIFF selects films from across the globe that give voice to workers and their struggles for better lives. \nTotal program runtime: 91 minutes \n \n\nFilm Program:\n\nNola\nby Natalie Remplakowski & Aisha Evelyna (Canada: English) – 10 min \n \nA Black woman working as a sous-chef navigates toxic restaurant culture and her wavering mental health\, until a chance encounter changes her. \n\nYour Own Boss\nby Álvaro Guzmán Bastida (Spain: Spanish) – 18 min \n \nA food delivery worker struggles to juggle his responsibilities as a young father with the impossible demands of an algorithm that pushes him to the limit. \n\nWorking For Freedom \nby Conor Devries (Canada: English) – 11 min \n \nWorking for Freedom is a short documentary that follows an Ottawa-based woman through her experiences of prison labour at the Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre. Author of Solidarity behind bars\, Jordan House\, provides us with an overview of the frameworks that allow these exploitative practices to continue today. \n\nShadow Work\nby Gillian McKercher (Canada: English) – 3 min \n \n\n\nThis short documentary looks at “shadow work”: tasks that are not part of an employee’s official job description\, but are necessary for the organization to function\, and may be unpaid and unseen. \nUnpaid labour\, shadow work\, glue work\, organizational citizenship. Whatever you name it\, organizations benefit from it. \n\n\n\nLimerent Pittsburgh\nby Anne Ciecko (USA: English) – 3 min \n \nA videopoem revisiting the rust belt city is a site of rekindling of memories and mythologies of labour and family. \n\nMotown South\nby Samuel George (USA: English) – 20 min \n \n\n\nThe electric vehicle industry is booming in the American South\, so much so that the region has earned the nickname the “Battery Belt”. \nBut why are producers setting up shop in states such as Georgia\, Alabama and Tennessee? In part\, the trend stems from a historic lack of union representation there. But workers – and labor organizers – have noticed. And they are starting to push back. How this emerging dynamic plays out could transform the future of American industry. \n\n\n\nGhost Workers\nby Lisette Olsthoorn (Netherlands: English) – 26 min \n \n\n\nIn a film set in which their home offices have been recreated\, six European microworkers share experiences with the filmmaker and with each other\, offering an affecting critique on changing labour conditions. \nGhost Workers is a cinematic research project into the people conducting the often hidden labor necessary to make artificial intelligence work. Working from home\, not being recognized as a worker by the platforms that they work for and being misunderstood by family and friends all together creates strong feelings of isolation. Therefore\, the filmmaker invited six workers from across Europe to share their work experiences with her and with each other. Focusing on the theme of isolation and recognition as a ‘real worker\,’ the film engages in a collective conversation about this type of work. \n\n\n 
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LOCATION:The Bus Stop Theatre Coop\, 2203 Gottingen St\, Halifax\, NS\, Canada
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SUMMARY:CLIFF 2024
DESCRIPTION:Canadian Labour International Film Festival\nMayworks Kjipuktuk/Halifax is proud to partner once again with the Canadian Labour International Film Festival for a satellite screening of films from their 16th annual festival. \nThe screening takes place November 19\, 7:00 PM\, at the Bus Stop Theatre Co-op (2203 Gottingen St\, Halifax). \nThis year\, we will be screening The Fighter (Canada: French); Bargaining Forward (Canada: English & French); Permit Garden (Canada); Humormàtic (Spain); Counting Days (Canada: Japanese); The Canadian Dream (Canada: Spanish); Adidas Owns the Reality (US: English). \nAll films are translated as needed through subtitles in English. \nTotal run time: 95 minutes. The screening will be followed by a moderated discussion for those interested. \nAdmission is PWYC\n \n \n\nJenny Yujia Shi 施雨迦\nWe will be joined by local filmmaker Jenny Yujia Shi for a brief intermission Q&A about her film Permit Garden selected as part of the 2024 CLIFF program! \n \nJenny Yujia Shi 施雨迦 is a visual artist and animation filmmaker based in Kjipuktuk. Shi’s practice is informed by two pivotal moments: losing her childhood community in Beijing due to urban development\, and navigating a decade-long immigration process in early adulthood. These experiences have shaped Shi’s interest in the impact of displacement and dislocation on individuals across generations and within communities. \n\nFilm Program:\nThe Fighter by André-Charles Ishpatao (Canada: French) – 6 min \n \nAndré-Charles is a boxer. Sports changed his life. He hopes his journey will inspire others to regain their pride and hold their heads high when facing life’s adversities. \n\nBargaining Forward by Colleen Butler (Canada: English & French) – 22 min \n \nThis bilingual (English and French) documentary showcases the unity and resilience of 22\,000 public sector workers in New Brunswick\, Canada\, as they strike against wage suppression. It explores strategic mobilization and collective bargaining efforts by the Canadian Union of Public Employees\, culminating in a province-wide movement that successfully challenges austerity and sparks labour action across Canada. Produced by the Canadian Union of Public Employees. \n\nPermit Garden by Jenny Yujia Shi (Canada: no dialogue) – 5 min \n \nA dreamlike parable about immigration\, Permit Garden follows a nameless child as they toil to gain exit from the Garden. But as time goes on\, they wonder if escape is even possible. Will their number ever be called? \n\nHumormàtic by Pau Escribano (Spain) – 20 min \n \nA comedy screenwriter for a TV show has to work with a new partner\, Humormatic\, a machine that writes jokes. The screenwriter will try to make her colleagues\, her bosses\, the TV host and the audience value her work\, but Humormatic won’t make things easy. \n\nCounting Days by Hiromu Yamawaki (Canada: Japanese) – 11 min \n \nAyano\, a Japanese migrant worker faces reality of living in a foreign land. She makes herself a morning coffee with one of the filters that she just bought. It is a pack of 90. The number of days before her VISA expires. \n\nThe Canadian Dream by Ilse Moreno (Canada: Spanish) – 9 min \n \nA migrant worker’s pursuit of ‘The Canadian Dream’ takes a ​nightmarish turn as he uncovers an unsightly truth in the Ontarian ​agricultural industry. His quest for a better life in Canada unfolds through his own words and from his daughter’s perspective in this poignant family portrait. \n\nAdidas Owns the Reality by Keil Orion Troisi & Igor Vamos (US: English) – 22 min \n \nTrickster activists the Yes Men collaborate with Clean Clothes Campaign and Berlin fashion designers to orchestrate an elaborate hoax announcement in an effort to improve conditions for garment workers and sustainability in the Adidas supply chain. Then they stage a shocking and hilarious fashion show at the opening of Berlin Fashion Week that makes the world pay attention to labor and environmental abuses that the mega-brand is trying to hide.
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SUMMARY:Canadian Labour International Film Festival
DESCRIPTION:Mayworks Kjipuktuk/Halifax Festival of Working People in the Arts is proud to partner once again with the Canadian Labour International Film Festival for a satellite screening of films from their 15th annual festival.\n\nThe screening takes place November 10\, 7:30 PM\, at the Bus Stop Theatre Co-op.\n\nThis year\, we will be screening Bergie (South Africa) by Dian Weys\, Shiringa: Amazon White Gold (Peru) by Oscar Akamine\, Lentejas (Spain) by José A. Campos\, HongKongers:A Re-Collection – My Destiny or My Choice? (UK) by Green Bean Media\, Allegory (Spain) by Tino Fernández\, Puanum (Dream) (Canada) by Josée Benjamin\, and Serigne (Spain) by Rodrigo Hernandez Tejero\, Adriana Cardoso Navarro\, & Edu Marin.\nAll films are translated as needed through subtitles in English.\n\nTotal run time: 87 minutes. The screening will be followed by a moderated discussion for those interested.\n\nAdmission is by donation.\n\n\n\nTHE FILMS:\n\nBergie (South Africa) by Dian Weys (7 min)\nThe term “bergie” is a South Africanism that refers to people that are homeless. This short film presents the viewer with a problem – a law enforcement officer has to remove homeless people sleeping on a path in the city in order to make way for a 10km fun-run. To do this\, he has to wrestle with fundamental questions about the dignity of human life. Language: English & Afrikaans.\n\n\n\n\nShiringa: Amazon White Gold (Peru) by Oscar Akamine (9 min)\nThis documentary follows Jorge Escompani\, a “Shiringa” master\, as he shows us how he extracts natural latex from the Shiringa tree. The extraction of latex from the Shiringa tree has led to the death of thousands of indigenous people due to slavery during “the fever of latex” in the 19th century. Current practices reflect a respectful relationship between the trees and those who depend on it for survival. Language: English & Spanish.\n\n\n\n\nLentejas (Spain) by José A. Campos (8 min)\nA humorous look at the gig economy and what work is like right now for many white collar workers who have to hustle for every contract and need multiple contracts to make a living. Workers can be anywhere – it just depends on the backdrop\, and how long you can hold the illusion together.  “Lentils (Lentejas): if you want\, eat them; if you don’t\, leave them.” Language: Spanish.\n\n\n\n\nHongKongers:A Re-Collection – My Destiny or My Choice? (UK) by Green Bean Media (18 min)\nThis documentary follows the experience of Siu Tat MUNG\, who was a leader in the Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions (HKCTU)\, as he recounts his experiences during the last few years it was in existence. HKCTU members voted to disband the union on October 3\, 2021\, following pro-democracy protests in 2019-2020. At least 29 Hong Kong trade unions were dissolved throughout 2021. Siu Tat Mung explains the conditions in Hong Kong and the reasons for asking his family to relocate to Great Britain. Through his story we are able to experience the difficult situation evolving for Trade Unionists and others working in Hong Kong in 2021. Language: Cantonese.\n\n\n\n\nAllegory (Spain) by Tino Fernández (13 min)\nTen participants are about to start a race in which the most important thing is not to win\, but to arrive\, in the race of their lives. This film is an allegory for the working class about class struggle and life. It raises good questions through its poetic approach about what life is all about. Language: Spanish.\n\n\n\n\nPuanum (Dream) (Canada) by Josée Benjamin (5 min)\nThis short documentary\, directed by an Innu filmmaker\, features Jordan\, a young french speaking\, indigenous fisherman. As we spend a typical day on his boat fishing for whelk\, he tells us the story of his journey towards becoming the captain of a fishing boat. Language: French.\n\n\n\n\n\nSerigne (Spain) by Rodrigo Hernandez Tejero\, Adriana Cardoso Navarro\, & Edu Marin. (27 min)\nIn this extraordinary documentary\, we follow Serigne Mbay\, a politician\, and his inspirational story\, as he works to educate his fellow citizens and politicians about the effects of current European fishing trade agreements on his home country of Senegal. The landscapes and the portraits of the people in this film are breathtakingly beautiful. Language: Spanish.
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SUMMARY:Canadian Labour International Film Festival
DESCRIPTION:Mayworks Kjipuktuk/Halifax Festival of Working People in the Arts is proud to partner once again with the Canadian Labour International Film Festival for a satellite screening of films from their 16th annual festival.\n\nThe screening takes place November 17\, 2022\, at the Bus Stop Theatre Co-op.\n\nThis year we are screening If There is No Struggle (United States) by Jared Katriane\, See Us Come Together (Philippines) by Alyssa Suico\, What Will I Show You? (Canada) by Elie-John Joseph\, Opera Trans*formed (Canada) by Leah Borts-Kuperman & Maria Sarrouh\, The Unmaking of Medical Inadmissibility (Canada) by Laura Bisaillon\, & Kellys (Spain) by Javier Fesser.\n\nThe screening lasts 62 minutes.\n\nAdmission by donation.\n\n\n\nOnline Viewing\nOnline streaming is available on demand. A streaming link will be emailed to anyone sending a PWYC donation by e-transfer to info@mayworkskjipuktukhfx.ca\n\nAs of November 17th at 7:30 PM\, you’ll have 2 hours to start watching. Once you begin\, you’ll have 48 hours to finish watching.\n\n\n\nTHE FILMS:\n\nIf There is No Struggle (United States) by Jared Katriane\nA young woman discovers the working class history of her neighbourhood through the lens of a 1965 Canon Scoopic 16mm camera and historical figures via Boston’s public art. She begins an important conversation that needs to continue in the labour movement given the overwhelming right wing ideology and misinformation being spread targeting working class folks.\nThe film title comes from an 1857 Frederick Douglass speech: “If there is no struggle\, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom\, and yet depreciate agitation\, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.”\n\n\n\n\nSee Us Come Together (Philippines) by Alyssa Suico\nSee Us Come Together is an amateur documentary following the members of the Optodev Workers Union\, tracing their story of forming their union before and during the COVID-19 pandemic.\nWhen factories were forced to close operations due to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020\, an ophthalmic lens workers’ union ensured mechanisms to protect their workers\, with the ultimate goal of changing the culture of labour in their factory. The documentary brings to focus what is essential to keep a country running in times of crisis. While the pandemic turned the spotlight on essential and frontline workers\, what was essential to the workers of Optodev was their union.\nSubtitled in ENGLISH\n\n\n\n\nWhat Will I Show You? (Canada) by Elie-John Joseph\nIn the tradition of direct cinema\, What Will I Show You is an intimate documentary in which a grandfather and his grandson discuss the past and future of Innu culture. An important\, first-person film telling the stories of Innu and their culture\, their work\, and the immediate impacts of environmental degradation on their lands.\nThemes of Indigenous learning\, work and way of life. From the Innu nation and residing in the Tiohtià:ke territory since 2006\, Elie-John Joseph has been passionate about cinema since a young age. Self-taught\, he has been practising film photography for several years.\n\n\n\n\nOpera Trans*formed (Canada) by Leah Borts-Kuperman & Maria Sarrouh\n“If I wasn’t an opera singer\, would I be a trans man?” asks Teiya Kasahara\, a gender non-binary singer\, partway through the film. It’s a dilemma facing gender non-binary and trans singers working in a field whose roles are rigidly defined along gender lines: sopranos and mezzos are cast as women (so-called “trouser roles” aside); tenors and basses as men.\nTeiya Kasahara (they/them) leads a new generation of trans* opera performers\, activists and self-proclaimed “shit-disturbers” making their voices heard–whether the classical music world likes it or not.\n\n\n\n\nThe Unmaking of Medical Inadmissibility (Canada) by Laura Bisaillon\nHave you ever considered the amount of work it takes to immigrate to Canada? Applying to immigrate is a form of labour: it requires time\, effort\, intention\, skill and money. This film about immigration application work tells the stories of Martha\, Winnie and Stella. As prospective immigrants to Canada\, they are tagged as being “abnormal” (to use the state’s term) through the immigration medical examination and therefore face higher barriers and discrimination during the immigration process.\nThemes include the criminalization of HIV\, and a critical look at the idea of “good immigrants.”\n\n\n\n\nKellys (Spain) by Javier Fesser\nIn this high quality short\, we glimpse a private conversation between two long-time hotel workers and close friends. But there are always things that are hidden\, even from your best friend.\nSubtitled in ENGLISH
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SUMMARY:Canadian Labour International Film Festival
DESCRIPTION:Free Online Screening\n7 International Short Films\nOnce again\, we are offering a local satellite screening of short films selected by the Canadian Labour International Film Festival! \nThe total run time of the event is 96 minutes. The screening will be followed by a short open discussion. \nRegister and screen the films for free here:\nhttps://watch.eventive.org/cliff2021/play/618b18844d40d7004597da22 \nJoin us at 8:30PM for a post film Zoom discussion:\nhttps://us06web.zoom.us/j/81767310796?pwd=SHA3N1hxeVhvaDlLWU1xaEswZU5yQT09 \nFILM PROGRAM\n   \n\nClass Action (Les Exemplaires)\nGuillaume Creton\n15 mins | Drama | France\nA teacher dies by suicide a few weeks before high school diploma exams and her colleagues go on a strike. (Trigger Warning) \nI Stand For Us\nAlmir Datoo\n22 mins | Drama | UK\nWhen hotel cleaners are faced with unfair working conditions\, Naomi works to unite the team in solidarity against destructive zero hour contracts. \nLonga Distância\nJean-Luc Moniz\n14 mins | Drama| Canada\nAn immigrant housekeeper works to provide for her son back home in Portugal. When she is accused of stealing from a client\, she fears that what she’s been working towards will all come crashing down. \nMIXI (CHAKKI)\nJyotsna Puthran\n6 mins | Animation | India\nPulses\, grams and sprouts are used in motion to create scenarios as a metaphorical representation of growth and future of a nation and shows the dark reality behind a favourite dish. \nPeople Show 138: Last Day\nGareth Brierley\n15 mins | Drama | UK\nA short dreamlike drama about power\, loss and loyalty. People Show 138: Last Day\, follows HR manager Sidney\, who after thirty years of working at an industrial sock factory faces a challenging dilemma that could affect the livelihood of his employees. \nSalvage\nChristopher Boulton\n10 mins | Doc | USA\nSalvage questions the allure of old objects by reimagining obsolete tools as reliquaries haunted by the souls of disgruntled workers who resent their new jobs. This hybrid intersectional documentary uses magic realism to critique the inequities of gender\, ethnicity\, and class that underpin consumer capitalism. \nTreaty Walk – A Journey for Common Ground\nBrad Leitch\n14 mins | Doc | Canada\nThe film follows a group of Indigenous elders\, Healthcare Workers\, and others as they embark on a two week long walking journey from Edmonton\, Alberta/Treaty 6 Territory to Calgary\, Alberta/Treaty 7 Territory to explore together what it means to be treaty people\, working and living on common ground.
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SUMMARY:Canadian Labour International Film Festival
DESCRIPTION:Since 2009\, CLIFF has been screening films about workers\, the conditions under which they live and work\, and related social justice issues\, in over 130 locations across Canada. \nAdmission: Pay What You Will – FREE popcorn! \nThe Halifax screening will feature five international short films celebrating workers.\nThe total run time of the event is 55 minutes. The screening will be followed by a short open discussion. \n  \nFILM PROGRAM\n \nAzadeh\n9.5 min drama from Iran and Director Mirabbas Khosravinezhad\nAzadeh\, a young girl living in a small village with her family\, wants\ngo to city to visit her father\, but her mother and brother won’t allow\nit… \n\nA Radiant Sphere\n9.5 min documentary from Canada and Director Sara Wylie\nThe filmmaker discovers a long lost family member\, the Canadian Communist poet and political prisoner\, Joe Wallace. Her research journey reveals his fascinating life and work\, and some surprising things they share in common. \n\n \nThe Glasgow Women Strike\n11 min documentary from Switzerland and Directors Leo David Hyde and Nathalie Berger. After decades of earning less than their male counterparts\, Glasgow’s female cooks\, cleaners and caregivers launch the biggest Equal Pay Strike in UK History.\n\n\n\n24-Hour Workday\n14.5 min documentary from the US and Director Zishun Ning\nHome care workers are forced to work grueling 24-hour shifts taking care of seriously-ill patients\, with only half of the pay. When they try to fight back through legislative means\, they meet obstacles from the State government which tries to legalize such inhumane practice.\n\n\n\nZero\n9 min drama from Spain and Director David Macian Montesinos\nOnce upon a time\, there was a town where nobody drank Coca-cola…
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SUMMARY:Canadian Labour International Film Festival
DESCRIPTION:Mayworks Halifax presents\na film screening curated by the \nCANADIAN LABOUR INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL \nCLiFF takes place this November in locations across Canada. Selected international films celebrate workers from around the world and shed light on issues that affect us all. \nAdmission by donation – PWYC!\nFREE Popcorn! \n***FILM PROGRAM***\nTotal run time: 75 min \nKAMPUNG TAPIR (Indonesia/Malaysia\, Drama\, 17 min)\nOne Sunday afternoon\, migrant workers Anne and her husband leave their five-year-old daughter from Kampung Tapir (Tapir Village)\, Malaysia. On the way to Singapore\, their bus hits a wild Malayan tapir crossing the road\, but no one is eager to save it. In the struggle of choosing a country to settle down in\, Anne finds that she is like this endangered species\, drifting between places to find a better life. \nTRABAJADORES (USA\, Documentary\, 10 min)\n55 years later\, Arturo S. Rodríguez\, President of the United Farm Workers of America\, continues the task that César Chávez started\, with the upcoming threat of the new Trump administration and the negative impact it may have on undocumented workers’ jobs and rights. \nLIFE OF DEATH (Indonesia\, Animation\, 5 min)\nDeath\, while struggling to balance his work and family life\, talks about his existence\, his job\, and his opinions on human beings in an interview from the documentary ‘Life of Death’. \nHAUNTED WITNESS (Canada\, Documentary\, 10 min)\nTrauma suffered by crime reporters is an under-reported and stigmatised issue. It is often forgotten or widely unacknowledged that like policeman and paramedics\, journalists are first responders to daily scenes of horror. Admitting to experiencing trauma to newsroom colleagues\, however\, is widely denounced within the industry. \nEAST: A RELATIONSHIP (Canada\, Poem\, 2 min)\nEAST\, is where Noor Khan comes from\, the Middle East and South Asia\, and it is also her location in relation to Toronto\, i.e. Scarborough. EAST communicates the crisis of having been robbed of a homeland\, while also settling and being complicit of the destruction of the home of Indigenous peoples. \nOUR STORY (Italy\, Animation\, 5 min)\nEmigration is a common territory that has involved many people all over the world. The stories of today’s emigrants are the stories of our past. Their ‘story’ is our story. It is everyone’s story. \nBELONGING TO UNTOUCHABLE GOD\n(India\, documentary\, 26 min)\nThe story of Ramkali Devi and the remarkable work of a group of Musahar women in Bihar. Breaking traditionally bonded labour for upper caste landlords where they were subjected to exploitation and violence\, workers undertook the struggle to fight for their rights and justice which lead to significant changes in their lives.
URL:https://mayworkskjipuktukhfx.ca/event/canadian-labour-international-film-festival-3/
LOCATION:The Bus Stop Theatre Coop\, 2203 Gottingen St\, Halifax\, NS\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Film
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