2024 DC LABOR FILMFEST: May 1–30
AFI Silver Theatre, 8633 Colesville Road, Silver Spring, MD
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Organized and presented by the Labor Heritage Foundation and the AFI Silver, this annual series features a wide-ranging selection of films about work, workers and the wider issues affecting workers' lives.
AFI Member passes accepted. AFI Member discount available for union members (must present union card).
THE OLD OAK: Wed, May 1 (Opening Night), 7:00; also screens Sat, May 4, 4:15
THE OLD OAK is the last pub standing in a once thriving mining village in northern England, a gathering space for a community that has fallen on hard times.
MODERN TIMES: Mon, May 6, 6:45
Charlie Chaplin's Little Tramp gets trapped in the coils of automation.
IN THE AISLES [IN DEN GÄNGEN]: Wed, May 8, 6:45
When the reclusive Christian (Franz Rogowski, TRANSIT) takes a job working the night shift at a big-box store, his new manager, Bruno from the Beverage Department (Peter Kurth, BABYLON BERLIN), teaches him the lay of the land and the delicacy it takes to operate a forklift.
FINDING THE MONEY: Thurs, May 9, 6:45 (Just added!)
Q&A with filmmaker Maren Poitras and subject Stephanie Kelton moderated by Sara Nelson, International President of AFA-CWA
An intrepid group of economists is on a mission to instigate a paradigm shift by flipping our understanding of the national debt — and the nature of money — upside down. We all use money, yet the questions of what it is and where it comes from remain elusive.
EDGE OF THE CITY: Mon, May 13, 7:00
Martin Ritt's film directorial debut, reminiscent of ON THE WATERFRONT for its depiction of a dangerous and corrupt dock-working world on New York City's Hudson River, features Sidney Poitier in his first top co-star billing.
THE PROMISED LAND [BASTARDEN]: Wed, May 15, 6:45
Denmark, 18th century. A retired army captain with humble origins, Ludvig Kahlen (Mads Mikkelsen, ANOTHER ROUND), makes a deal with the king: successfully settle Jutland and ascend to nobility.
MATEWAN: Mon, May 20, 6:45
This American labor classic is based on the 1920 showdown between West Virginia coal miners and coal company agents hired to prevent them from unionizing.
OFFICE SPACE: Wed, May 22, 7:00
"I could burn this place down." The perennial DC Labor FilmFest favorite OFFICE SPACE returns for its 25th anniversary!
UNREST [UNRUEH]: Tue, May 28, 7:00
New technologies are transforming a 19th-century watchmaking town in Switzerland.
WORKING CLASS GOES TO HELL [RADNIČKA KLASA IDE U PAKAO]: Thurs, May 30, 6:45
Five years after a factory fire claimed the lives of several workers and, with them, the primary livelihood of a rural Balkan town, the plant's union is met with a debilitating blow in their fight for reparations.