Name: Program 8: 'Limits of Europe' - The Divide Between East and West
Start: 2024-10-20T20:30:00-04:00
End: 2024-10-20T22:30:00-04:00
Location: Cinema Village

Program 8: 'Limits of Europe' - The Divide Between East and West

Leaving her family, journalist Saša Uhlová sets out to experience first-hand what it is like to become a migrant worker in Western Europe.
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What is the price of Western prosperity?

LIMITS OF EUROPE - A prominent Czech journalist leaves her family and joins the “cheap labour force” in Western Europe. Undercover, she works at an asparagus farm in Germany, tries her hand as a maid at a hotel in Ireland and takes care of the elderly in France. She experiences first-hand the struggles of Eastern European low-wage workers whose sacrifice and hard work allow for Western society’s comfort. What is the real price that Europe pays for exploiting its own citizens? What do the lives of economic migrants, who have been forced to leave their children and elderly parents, look like? And why are privileged Europeans looking the other way? (1 hr 38m, 2024, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Ireland, U.K., Director: Apolena Rychliková)

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FRUITS OF RESISTANCE - 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. (22m, 2023, Spain, Director: Aline Juárez)