WEEKEND LABOR ARTS CALENDAR: Aug 8-10, 2025
Chris Garlock | Published on 8/8/2025
FILM: Cloud (2024): This stylish, subversive thriller from suspense maverick Kiyoshi Kurosawa (CURE, PULSE) centers on Yoshii (Masaki Suda), an ambitious, yet directionless, young factory worker from Tokyo who side hustles in the murky realm of black-market reselling, cheating buyers and sellers alike. AFI Silver Theatre in Silver Spring, MD; multiple dates/times beginning Friday, August 8.
FILM: The Organizer [I Compagni] (1963): In turn-of-the-twentieth-century Turin, an accident in a textile factory incites workers to stage a walkout. But it is not until they receive unexpected aid from a traveling professor (Marcello Mastroianni) that they find their voice, unite and stand up for themselves. AFI Silver Theatre in Silver Spring, MD; multiple dates/times beginning Saturday, August 9; details/tickets here.
Saturday: High Iron (WY)
Ongoing: Power & Light: Russell Lee's Coal Survey (DC)