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24/7: Work between meaning and imbalance reflects a breadth of themes in some 30 artworks tackling various aspects that both those working and those not working are confronted with in society today.

Signs of the times: the most useful films for this moment of labor unrest in the film industry are those made in close connection with the workers on the front lines

HOW SWISS IS IT? Cyril Schäublin, who joins the Zürcher brothers as one of the leading auteurs of the first major wave of Helvetian filmmaking since the heyday of Alain Tanner and Daniel Schmid half a century ago, appears determined in his first two features to demolish the myth of Swiss probity, especially in the echt Schweizer realms of finance and industry. Schäublin made his brilliant debut with the ironically titled Those Who Are Fine (2017), about a young worker at a Zurich call cent...

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After glimpsing his great-great-grandfather on-screen, a writer searches for the history of a landmark silent film.

During a six-month residency with Alchemy Film & Arts, Mark Lyken developed Notes from a Low Orbit, a feature-length study of Hawick in the Scottish Borders, where Alchemy is based. Lyken reflects on making the film and its rapturous hometown premiere.

“This is a reel of film that is deteriorated and brittle. It will never be brought back to life,” Taiwan Film and Audiovisual Institute (TFAI) chairman Tony Lan (藍祖蔚) said at the institute, holding aloft a canister from a collection of more than 18,000 Taiwanese movies, to help visiting lawmakers fully understand the race against time to find a new home for the institute’s film archive center. Lan and his staff have for years been collecting and preserving copies of films made by Ta...

Workers of the world, unite! And also watch these films from all over the world exploring workers' rights and the power of unionisation.

Hungarian physicians have to sign a new contract by the end of this week to be able to continue working in public care after March 1st. Under the new agreement, the base salary of doctors will increase significantly, but there might be a major setback in the additional benefits, so much so that for some it could fully negate the promised pay increase. As a result, employees of several hospitals across the country seem to be rejecting the contract, endangering the proper functioning of the healt...