This package includes six shorts which take place around the world, including "Adidas Owns the Reality" (Germany, Cambodia), "Bargaining Forward" (Canada), Fruits of Resistance" (Spain), "Le Malcontente" (Italy), Paris Olympics By the Chinese (France, China), and "Streets of Change" (U.K.). You may watch in any order.

Prankster activists perform an elaborate hoax to improve conditions for garment workers in the Adidas supply chain. Staging a shocking runway show at Berlin Fashion Week, they use humor and mischief to make the world pay attention to labor and environmental abuses that the massive sportswear brand is trying to hide.

English

Adidas Owns the Reality

Prankster activists perform an elaborate hoax to improve conditions for garment workers in the Adidas supply chain.

This bilingual documentary (English and French) 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 (CUPE), culminating in a province-wide movement that successfully challenges austerity and sparks labor action across Canada. <img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/eventive-static/94b0f251971d18aad379671d55d1f2b3.jpg" width="339">

English, French

Bargaining Forward

The unity and resilience of 22,000 CUPE public sector workers as they strike against wage suppression.

Frutos de Resistencia portrays five stories of hope and resistance from the plastic sea in Almeria, the focal point of industrial agriculture in Europe. Through the eyes of women, migrants and trade unionists, everyday experiences of exclusion and exploitation by Spanish society are made visible. The documentary shows powerful perspectives of collective organizing of people fighting for their basic rights in the agriculture industry.

Fruits Of Resistance

Migrant workers in Almeria, Spain, organize for basic rights in the agricultural industry.

The history of trade union activism in Piacenza’s Italian textile sector in the ‘60s and ‘70s, told through the voices of the women at the center of the movement, and the images of a generation in struggle.

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.

A documentary investigation into the Chinese people and technology underpinning the Paris Olympics.

Paris Olympics (By the Chinese)

A documentary investigation into the Chinese people and technology underpinning the Paris Olympics.

Amid a worsening housing crisis in the UK, Streets of Change exposes the harsh reality of homelessness, where the average age of death is 46 for men and 42 for women. This film challenges public perceptions by bringing to life the stories of "rough-sleepers" and the outreach workers who support them. It explores the complexity of the homeless and urges viewers to see beyond stereotypes.

Streets Of Change

The harsh reality of homelessness amid a worsening housing crisis in the UK.

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