SUNDAY MAY 15TH
3PM-5PM (Doors open 2:30pm)
Exploring the ways that migration and forced displacement, on a global and local scale, shape our relationships to work and the communities that sustain us. Co-presented with Canadian Labour International Film Festival.
Registration required.
Masks are required. This venue has gender neutral washrooms. If you require wheelchair accessible seating, please email programming@mayworks.ca. ASL not currently available for this event.
A HORSE HAS MORE BLOOD THAN A HUMAN BY ABOLFAZL TALOONI, IRAN AND UK
An older couple leave Tehran and return to their idyllic home town on the Turkish border, but their dreams of quiet retirement are shattered by the realization that their town has become a smuggling gateway into Europe.
Language: Farsi, English subtitles
RIDERS NOT HEROES BY DAVIDE RAPP AND IPPOLITO PESTELLINI LAPARELLI, ITALY
Riders Not Heroes is a short video essay that investigates the precarious conditions of food delivery riders in Milan. The film makes a strong case for riders as essential workers, lying at the intersection of platform capitalism, gig-labor, the refugee crises and COVID-19.
Language: Italian, English subtitles
X BY MAREIKE WEGENER, GERMANY
A reimagination of the demonic crossroad myth, X takes place in the post industrial landscape of Germany’s western coal mining region. Ecke searches for work, but his hands are too shaky. Dieter attempts to breathe, but his remaining lung is too dusty. An eerie music emerges from the combination of gasping, metallic clatter, the humming of power lines and the sound of hoofbeats in the old mines. Until the devil appears in the tunnels below to form a pact. X is a cinematic ritual aimed at appeasing the ancestral spirits of the industrial workforce. The surreal road movie is inspired by the lives of the filmmaker’s father and grandfather, who also play the lead roles.
Language: German, English subtitles
TICKETED FOR WHAT? BY YVONNE SUNG, CANADA (SET IN TORONTO)
A peek into Toronto’s homeless community being unfairly ticketed under the Ontario Safe Streets Act.
IF THERE IS NO STRUGGLE BY JARED KATSIANE, USA
Seeing Her is a silent portrait of the filmmaker’s great-grandmother’s amauti. This analogue animation weaves the beaded textures that give space to the labour, skill, and memories that this amauti holds.
SHEA, BY NASRA BY EFFY ADAR, CANADA
A family displaced by greed searches for a new home in a foreign place. As they explore they discover pieces of themselves; old and new. “Shea” celebrates what has always remained in Black/African peoples, an innate sense of home, luxury and interconnectedness.