The 2015 Brazilian International Labour Film Festival
Mostra CineTrabalho
Monday 05 – Friday 09 October 2015
Espaço Cultural Casa do Lago
University of Campinas - UNICAMP
Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil
The Mostra CineTrabalho / Brazilian International Labour Film Festival (BILFF) is a university extension activity of the UNESP – São Paulo State University. The event merges the cultural characteristics of a film festival with the academic discipline of social sciences to bring together knowledge and a critical view of the labour world. The BILFF aims to honour and support the filmmakers whose productions regard working conditions and to provide a forum for appreciative and informed discussion of a wide range of labour issues.
For further information, please visit our website http://www.bilff.org
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The 2015 Films
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THE SEEDS
Filmmakers: Beto Novaes and Claisson Vidal
Brazil | 2015 | Documentary | 30 minutes
MONDAY, OCTOBER 05 | 16.30
The documentary portrays life trajectories of women farmers participating actively in agroecological movements in Brazil. They are protagonists of important social changes in the Brazilian countryside. Moreover, these women organise the movements themselves, autonomously, as social and political leaders that are questioning stereotypes of the social imaginary.
A REALITY EVERY SECOND
Filmmaker: Karim Ouelhaj
Belgium | 2015 | Fiction | 95 minutes
MONDAY, OCTOBER 05 | 19.00
Driving around under the lights of the city, Lucky, a social worker, is looking for Romane, a young teenager who has ran away. On his way, he meets Vladimir, an unconventional person, horrified by the moral decadence around him. Through the gaze of these characteres, A Reality Every Second immerses us into the universe of those we are usually turning away from.
(South American Premiere)
MINERS SHOT DOWN
Filmmaker: Rehad Desai
South Africa | 2014 | Documentary | 85 minutes
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 06 | 16.00
In August 2012, mineworkers in one of South Africa’s biggest platinum mines began a wildcat strike for better wages. Six days into the strike, the police used live ammunition to brutally suppress the strike, killing 34 and injuring many more. The police insisted that they shot in self- defense. Miners Shot Down tells a different story, one that unfolds in real time over seven days, like a ticking time bomb. The film weaves together the central point-of-view of three strike leaders, Mambush, Tholakele and Mzoxolo, with compelling police footage, TV archive and interviews with lawyers representing the miners in the ensuing commission of inquiry into the massacre. What emerges is a tragedy that arises out of the deep fault lines in South Africa’s nascent democracy, of enduring poverty and a twenty year old, unfulfilled promise of a better life for all. A campaigning film, beautifully shot, sensitively told, with a haunting soundtrack, Miners Shot Down reveals how far the African National Congress has strayed from its progressive liberationist roots and leaves audiences with an uncomfortable view of those that profit from minerals in the global South.
PAY SLIP SHUT DOWN
Filmmaker: Lee Salter
United Kingdon | 2014 | Documentary | 10 minutes
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 06 | 19.00
A film documenting the struggles of precarious workers to receive full pay from the hospitality industry in Brighton. This documents one such struggle, led by Solidarity Federation against a cafe that was not paying.
(South American Premiere)
CRISIS DOCUMENT. A SURVIVAL GUIDE
Filmmakers: Elisabeth Marjanovic ́ Cronvall and Marta Dauliute
Sweden, 2015, Documentary, 15 minutes
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 06 | 19.15
Recipe for fascism: Half a generation unemployed, doctors forced to choose whom to treat, social security disappearing, the public on discount.
We ask our friends in Greece to make a list of their images of the euro crisis. It becomes a warning list for the North.
(South American Premiere)
SANT’ANNA
Filmmaker: Angelo Defanti
Brazil | 2014 | Documentary | 20 minutes
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 07 | 16.00
“But the thing is, if a guy is a writer and want to write about his reality, this reality will be imbued with the fact that he is writer”. André is Sérgio’s son.
(South American Premiere)
ELF
Filmmaker: Ting-Ging YU
Taiwan | 2015 | Fiction | 18 minutes
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 07 | 16.25
Yen is an albino. She struggled through study and became a teacher. Hao-hao wrote to Yen and told her that he finally got a job. Ah-chih suffers from physical handicaps and creates great paintings. The director compares those who suffer from physical handicaps but being hard-working like angels sent by God.
(South American Premiere)
THE GOLD OF FASO
Filmmaker: Dragoss Ouedraogo
Burkina Faso | 2015 | Documentary | 62 minutes
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 07 | 19.00
Since 2009, Burkina Faso knows a situation of “mining boom” after a campaign of geological exploration and an incitement of foreigner investments. But thanks to a favourable mining code and a discriminatory legislation, this “mining boom” looks like a huge operation of looting the resources of the country, enriching the managers of this network and droping the populations loosing their grounds.
The Gold of Faso does not shine for every body and the anger growls.
(South American Premiere)
YA WOOTO
Filmmaker: Jenny Cartwright
Canada/Burkina Faso | 2014 | Documentary | 68 minutes
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 08 | 16.00
From his village to the big city, Sylvain is trying to make it in Ouagadougou, the capital city of Burkina Faso, one of the world’s five poorest countries. There, he found a job as a bar manager at Le coin des Amis, a “buvette” owned by Hortense, a policewoman trying to make ends meet. Work is home for Sylvain: he works seven days a week and sleeps in the backroom. He has only one thing in mind: saving up enough money to get his driver’s license. If he succeeds, he could drive a merchandise truck, a job that would allow him to find a wife and start a family. In Burkina Faso, you are not really an adult until you are married. That is why he saves 100% of the 20$ he makes every month. In a year’s time he will have saved up enough cash to start his lessons.
(South American Premiere)
SECOND CLASS
Filmmakers: Marta Dauliute and Elisabeth Marjanovic ́ Cronvall
Sweden/Lithuania | 2013 | Documentary | 60 minutes
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 08 | 19.00
“Do you feel cheaper?” We are filming Lithuanian migrant working men in Sweden. They do not want to be on camera, they do not want to participate in creating one more media image for guilt and pity. They film us. We empty a bottle of moonshine, we dance on their porch. They might let us film them tomorrow.
Through sincere and frustrating negotiation to get access to film the migrant workers, Second Class becomes a discussion about class, the value of work and human. While showing the filming process film raises questions about power relations in film industry itself.
(South American Premiere)
THE SEAMAN
Filmmaker: Ting-Ging YU
Taiwan | 2014 | Fiction | 18 minutes
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 09 | 16.00
Acen’s girlfriend, Yuli, is a caregiver, and she always waits for him to come back; Anan misses his home in Indonesia by viewing the sea. One day, he meets Dora. They fall in love with each other, and Anan feels the love of a girl who comes from his homeland.
(South American Premiere)
OPEN EYES
Filmmaker: Martin Aletta
Argentina/Japan | 2013 | Fiction | 15 minutes
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 09 | 16.25
Tokyo. Ryo goes to his job at the railway company where he’s task is remove the remains of the railroad due to the numerous suicides. Saki, a young girl, wanders around her city contemplating an apathetic society. Her walk drives her to the platform of station where Ryo finds her…
ONE DAY
Filmmaker: Angelo Defanti
Brazil | 2015 | Documentary | 20 minutes
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 09 | 19.00
Marcelo on a cloudy day in Rio de Janeiro.
(South American Premiere)
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The BILFF is organised by the University Extension Programme Tela Crítica with the support of the UNESP Vice-Chancellor for Extension, and is promoted by the Labour Studies Network (RET – Rede de Estudos do Trabalho) and the Globalisation Studies and Research Group.
Organisers: Prof. Dr Giovanni Alves (Coordinator) and Elson Menegazzo (Curator)
Brazilian International Labour Film Festival / Mostra CineTrabalho
Sao Paulo State University (UNESP)
Faculty of Philosophy and Science
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Av. Hygino Muzzi Filho, 737
17525-000 – Marília, Sao Paulo
Brazil
Tel: +55 (14) 3402-1300
info@bilff.org