Work-o-witch

A look at the lives of employees at a big box store.

A crude oil worker finds tensions arising with his best friend when they are both sent to work at the small town where he failed out of school as a teenager.

In Europe, one third of working people are in a precarious employment situation. In spite of having a job, and sometimes even several, the end of the month is difficult, and housing, food and heating become delicate issues. These workers form a new social class called "precariat" by economists, a neologism born from the contraction of "precariousness" and "proletariat". The rise in food and energy prices has considerably increased the economic insecurity of large sections of society, which until now belonged to the middle class. While the upper third of society has become richer despite the crisis, the lower third has fallen further behind. Women, who occupy the most precarious jobs, are clearly more affected than men.

How empty corporate jargon, management fashions and self-serving bureaucracy masquerading as efficiency hijacked the purpose of work. How it came to be and above all; how we can break free from it.

In late 19th century Switzerland, a factory worker becomes involved with a local group of anarchist watchmakers.

Masculine and feminine, hard and soft, continues and interrupted, whole and fragmented. All that is encompassed by just one day at the factory.

A close-up of Berlin coal carriers from Prenzlauer Berg. No portrayal of worker heroes or progress here. Instead, bright, deeply-felt sketches of rough men and their resolute woman boss. "Refreshing and new... A beautiful, sometimes whimsical documentation of Berlin workers. A cinematic correction of what, in general, was valued in an East German documentary." - Elke Schieber, film historian

Call for the regularization by the French government of all undocumented workers living in the country, a short film co-directed by 320 filmmakers and directors, producers, distributors and cinema owners.

After promising 1100 employees that they would protect their jobs, the managers of a factory decide to suddenly close up shop. Laurent takes the lead in a fight against this decision.

At the age of 51 and after 20 months on unemployment, Thierry starts a new job that soon brings him face to face with a moral dilemma. How much is he willing to accept to keep his job?

The (love) life of a man fed up with his work and life routine changes when he enlists into a tango dancing course.

The job market is only for those who fit the system, so what about the misfits in our society? Michl's Restaurant hires exactly these misfits and helps them to build confidence, job experience and so much more. We follow waiters, kitchen helps, cooks and other employees in their daily struggle to learn ... inside and outside the job. A touching and tough doc, for everyone who works, or wants to work.

OUR DAILY BREAD is a wide-screen tableau of a feast which isn't always easy to digest - and in which we all take part. A pure, meticulous and high-end film experience that enables the audience to form their own ideas.

Gabriele is thirteen and has a strong will to prove himself. He chooses to spend the summer in the mountains to look after cattle and returns home a new person.

As unemployment rises, a busy human resources agency teaches clients, mostly inexperienced young people, how to become more appealing to potential employers. Some accept this as necessary evil, others condemn it as excessive conformism.

In a modest office in Paris, Caroline and Colette help asylum seekers find accommodation or something to eat, and fight against their growing despair and the madness of bureaucracy.

A fourteen-year-old boy's life in the mountains is about to end as he is soon to enroll in catering school. The institution he attends is renowned for its strict rules: the lessons on cooking, dining etiquette, and religion make each student daily confront their weaknesses, insecurities and skills.

Life in a town at war seen through the eyes of three young girls on the path to adolescence.

Under the creative direction of Gael Garcia Bernal, ten award-winning directors tell the story of the high school dropout crisis in Latin America in an anthology of narrative and documentary film as beautifully diverse and complex as the region. Travel to seven different countries and explore the underlying reasons why nearly one out of every two students never makes it to graduation day.

Martin Eden struggles to rise above his destitute, proletarian circumstances through an intense and passionate pursuit of self-education, hoping to achieve a place among the literary elite.

A portrait of Italy observed through the eyes of teenagers who talk about the places they live in and imagine themselves, torn between the opportunities that surround them, the dream of what they want to become, the fear of failing, the trials they hope to overcome.