Workers Unite Film Festival 2025

Welcome to the 2025 Workers Unite Film Festival online watch page!
More listings may still be going up for our virtual film fest 10/24 through 10/30 featuring a selection of participating Season 14 films available on-demand. You may also watch on your Smart TV by first adding films to your account, downloading the Eventive TV app, and logging in there. Questions? melanie@workersuniteff.org

Narrative

Documentary Short

The Arrivals
The journey of asylum seekers sent to NYC from the Texas border starting in Aug 2022. Highlighted are the efforts of three small, underfunded volunteer organizations that provided essential support, including food, clothing, kindness and dignity to traumatized individuals and families seeking safety and security in the U.S.
37 min | 2025 | United States
The Arrivals
Bang Bang: Backbone of A Mountain City
Chongqing, a city built on mountains in Southwestern China, remains a stronghold of porters known as “bang bang” who move goods along streets on the rugged terrain, many of whom are elderly.
15 min | 2025 | China
Bang Bang: Backbone of A Mountain City
Bev Grant: A Lifetime of Liberation
Photographer, activist, and songwriter Bev Grant discusses, in her own words, her involvement in the Women’s Liberation movement and more.
40 min | 2025 | United States
Bev Grant: A Lifetime of Liberation
COVID Sourdough
Union organizers at Tartine Bakery in San Francisco win an election despite the tactics of their anti-union boss.
17 min | 2024 | United States
COVID Sourdough
Dust and Dreams
In Peru, women miners have been invisible in a male-dominated industry. Pallaqueras, tunnel workers, and mining entrepreneurs unite to demand recognition.
38 min | 2025 | Peru
Dust and Dreams
Farmers of the Sea
The daily life of artisanal fishermen in Puerto Rico, as they navigate new challenges in pursuit of their catch amidst declining fish populations and climate change.
20 min | 2024 | Puerto Rico
Farmers of the Sea
Forecast
A doc short that captures the pulse of Times Square, New York City on the eve of the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election.
13 min | 2024 | United States
Forecast
Interwoven
In the wake of the textile industry's decline, a community in North Carolina fights to reclaim its economic future through innovative worker-owned cooperatives and sustainable practices.
24 min | 2025 | United States
Interwoven
The Last Newspaperman
The crisis of local journalism, its causes, and the proposals to fix it, through the personalized frame of one local newspaper reporter’s life and career. Joe Napsha has worked at the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review for 45 years.
17 min | 2024 | United States
The Last Newspaperman
Motown South: Organized Labor In the Battery Belt
As America’s electric vehicle boom shifts to the Deep South, weak unions draw investors while Southern workers fight to organize — setting the stage for a showdown that could define the future of America’s Battery Belt.
21 min | 2025 | United States
Motown South: Organized Labor In the Battery Belt
Public Good: A Fight for Democracy (Cricket)
Cricket, a city wastewater treatment mechanic in FL, was on the frontlines during Hurricane Milton. While his own house flooded, he was working to serve his community. He's one of countless public servants who keep America running. Now, their rights are under attack.
4 min | 2025 | United States
Public Good: A Fight for Democracy (Cricket)
Taken For A Ride: How San Francisco Backstabbed A Generation of Cab Drivers
San Francisco’s Taxi Medallion Sales Program promised cab drivers a path to financial stability but, instead, it became a financial trap.
15 min | 2025 | United States
Taken For A Ride: How San Francisco Backstabbed A Generation of Cab Drivers
They Called It the Butcher Shop: The Fleck Strike In Images
In 1978 Ontario, the women of Fleck Manufacturing walked off of the job for five months, fighting for better wages, safer working conditions, and union security.
15 min | 2025 | Canada
They Called It the Butcher Shop: The Fleck Strike In Images

Documentary Feature

Baristas vs Billionaires
Starbucks baristas in Buffalo NY organize against corporate exploitation, sparking a nationwide, generational uprising among working-class Millennials and Gen Z as they challenge a powerful billionaire CEO and fight for their rights.
76 min | 2025 | United States
Baristas vs Billionaires
Between the Sun and the Sidewalk
Two fiercely dedicated young Latino political organizers lead a team of new recruits to mobilize their community to support a sugary drink tax. When the CA state government passes a stealth law to ban all local soda taxes until 2030, these young activists fearlessly battle the corporate lobbying efforts to block them.
76 min | 2024 | United States
Between the Sun and the Sidewalk
Heart and Soul: A Love Story
From harmony to heartbreak, inside the world of the early, unsung heroes of rock & roll whose voices shaped the music that endures.
90 min | 2023 | United States
Heart and Soul: A Love Story
One Big Family
The near 100-year history of the Kliafa soft drink company in Greece and its positive extension into the nearby community and lives of its factory employees.
70 min | 2023 | Greece
One Big Family
Raise the Roof: Building Tenant Power In Syracuse
Inside the growing movement for housing justice through the lens of tenant organizing in Syracuse, NY - one of the poorest cities in the country and home to a deep, ongoing housing crisis.
52 min | 2024 | United States
Raise the Roof: Building Tenant Power In Syracuse
Threads of A Revolution
A documentary following Janet Biehl, an American writer who travels to Northeast Syria to explore the legacy of her late partner, Murray Bookchin, whose philosophical ideas helped inspire a women’s revolution. During her journey, she meets a wide range of people who are each coming to terms with life after ISIS.
56 min | 2024 | Syrian Arab Republic
Threads of A Revolution
We Only Want the Earth: The Life and Ideas of James Connolly
An iconic presence on the landscape of Irish socialism and republicanism, the name James Connolly looms large in the trade union movement and wherever radical left-wing politics are espoused.
89 min | 2025 | Ireland
We Only Want the Earth: The Life and Ideas of James Connolly
White Mountains
Lefteris Eliakis was a guerrilla fighter during the Greek Civil War and a political prisoner for two decades. This insightful portrait conjures the ghosts of the Civil War – the maverick people, revolutionary politics, and events that have shaped today’s Greece.
87 min | 2024 | Greece
White Mountains
Without Bosses: Democracy At Work
Collectives and workplace cooperatives in Germany are proving that a better, more democratic future of work is possible.
54 min | 2025 | Germany
Without Bosses: Democracy At Work
YAPs
Victory Hall Opera’s searing, intimate documentary following five young opera singers across America over one year of their lives.
82 min | 2025 | United States
YAPs

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