Workers Unite Film Festival 2024

Welcome to the 2024 Workers Unite Film Festival online events watch page!
Tickets are now disabled for all films, as the Virtual Festival has since concluded. Trailers can still be played, however. Check our website later in November for the announcement of Season 13 Winners and submission opening dates for 2025. Questions? melanie@workersuniteff.org

Narrative

Documentary Feature

Campo de Santana: Paradise In the Middle Of Chaos
There is no park in Rio de Janeiro like Campo de Santana, a constantly evolving place.
100 min | 2024 | Brazil
Campo de Santana: Paradise In the Middle Of Chaos
Construction Workers, Our Heroic Comrades
Construction workers were the vanguard of the labor and working class movement in post-Civil War Greece.
57 min | 2023 | Greece
Construction Workers, Our Heroic Comrades
Fire Department, Inc.
A firefighter’s labor union finds itself under a different kind of fire when the Mayor announces he’s privatizing their department to save money.
78 min | 2023 | United States
Fire Department, Inc.
Gumbo Coalition
National social justice leaders, Marc Morial and Janet Murguía, join forces to fight structural racism amid a troubling resurgence of white supremacy in the Trump era.
113 min | 2022 | United States
Gumbo Coalition
The History Of Work
The History of Work unravels our modern relationships to work and contextualizes our capitalist work systems by examining how the nation’s past has created a foundation for the present.
71 min | 2023 | United States
The History Of Work
The Interview At Sea
An actor plays the helmsman of a fishing boat in Italy. His story embodies the events experienced by 42 fishermen interviewed throughout 3 years of field research. A hybrid documentary/theater production.
72 min | 2023 | Italy
The Interview At Sea
Limits Of Europe
Leaving her family, journalist Saša Uhlová sets out to experience first-hand what it's like to become a migrant worker, offering a revelatory exploration into the lives of people who are the pillars of Western European prosperity.
99 min | 2024 | France, Germany, Ireland, United Kingdom, Czech Republic
Limits Of Europe
Mangatha
In a time of changing technology and automation, local artistry such as handloom weaving is on the decline in India and it's hard for them to make a living.
62 min | 2024 | India
Mangatha
The Pickers
One million migrants harvest Europe’s fields, picking the fruit and vegetables that we buy in European supermarkets. Most of them work and live in precarious conditions.
81 min | 2024 | Portugal, Greece, Italy, Spain
The Pickers
Revolutionary Song: The Story of Radical Chilean Music and Politics
The 60 year history of radical Chilean folk music, punk, and hip-hop that has deeply influenced the political consciousness and social movements.
97 min | 2024 | Chile
Revolutionary Song: The Story of Radical Chilean Music and Politics
Senses Of Cinema
The rise and fall of Australian Filmmakers' Cooperatives in the 1960s to 1980s.
89 min | 2022 | Australia
Senses Of Cinema
Ultimate Citizens
Jamshid, an Iranian American public school counselor, teaches the children of immigrants and refugees in Seattle about life and belonging.
53 min | 2024 | United States
Ultimate Citizens
What Will People Think Of Us? (Qu'est-ce Qu'on Va Penser de Nous?)
A young woman's journey between dreams of upward social mobility and disappointment, in France.
69 min | 2022 | France
What Will People Think Of Us? (Qu'est-ce Qu'on Va Penser de Nous?)

Documentary Short

Adidas Owns the Reality
Prankster activists perform an elaborate hoax to improve conditions for garment workers in the Adidas supply chain.
22 min | 2024 | Germany, Cambodia
Adidas Owns the Reality
Bargaining Forward
The unity and resilience of 22,000 CUPE public sector workers as they strike against wage suppression.
23 min | 2024 | Canada
Bargaining Forward
The Cooperators
An oral history of Penn South, the affordable housing cooperative in the middle of New York City.
36 min | 2024 | United States
The Cooperators
En Común: Bookloving y Organizing
Mil Mundos is a bilingual, co-op bookstore in Bushwick that has fostered a larger sense of community in the area.
16 min | 2024 | United States
En Común: Bookloving y Organizing
Foot Soldiers for Democracy
The January 6th insurrection isn't the only story of the 2020 election. Letter carriers literally delivered democracy in the form of absentee ballots during the pandemic.
22 min | 2024 | United States
Foot Soldiers for Democracy
Fruits Of Resistance
Migrant workers in Almeria, Spain, organize for basic rights in the agricultural industry.
26 min | 2023 | Spain
Fruits Of Resistance
Le Malcontente (The Malcontents)
The history of trade union activism in the Italian textile sector in the 1960-70s, told through the voices of the women at the center of the movement.
29 min | 2023 | Italy
Le Malcontente (The Malcontents)
Out Of Office
A scrappy group of office workers pulls off a major victory for workers’ rights in Wisconsin.
31 min | 2024 | United States
Out Of Office
Paris Olympics (By the Chinese)
A documentary investigation into the Chinese people and technology underpinning the Paris Olympics.
32 min | 2024 | China, France
Paris Olympics (By the Chinese)
The Presidents' Tailor: From Auschwitz to the White House
Martin Greenfield learned to sew while mending shirts for the Gestapo in Auschwitz and went on to make suits for U.S. presidents and stars. This is the story of America’s greatest tailor, and the bespoke menswear empire he left behind.
40 min | 2024 | United States, Poland, Ukraine, Germany
The Presidents' Tailor: From Auschwitz to the White House
Queen Of the Road
A glimpse into the life of an independent female truck driver, Milica Virag.
19 min | 2015 | United States
Queen Of the Road
Relighting the Flame
A new generation of workers are defying enormous odds to rebuild and grow America's steel industry.
26 min | 2024 | United States
Relighting the Flame
Stories From the Heart of Public Education: Nicole
K-12 support staff are at the very heart of the public education system. Yet, they are also some of the most overlooked essential workers.
8 min | 2024 | United States
Stories From the Heart of Public Education: Nicole
Streets Of Change
The harsh reality of homelessness amid a worsening housing crisis in the UK.
30 min | 2024 | United Kingdom
Streets Of Change
Working Group
A dedicated group of university students attempt to connect with custodial workers on campus and find ways to help them.
13 min | 2024 | United States
Working Group
Works For All: Cincinnati's Co-op Economy
Cincinnati is home to Co-op Cincy, a unique network of activists and unionized cooperatives that are building an economy that works for all.
31 min | 2023 | United States
Works For All: Cincinnati's Co-op Economy