Mayday IFFR Filmclub in Dokhuis

Film Club is an initiative by International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR). It brings (aspiring) film lovers, young filmmakers, and creatives together at various locations across the city to watch films and share their interests. At the Film Club in Dokhuis, we focus on films by Rotterdam-based makers or with a local Rotterdam flavor.

On May 1st, the International Workers’ Day, IFFR Filmclub presents two bold and thought provoking films: You Can’t Automate Me and Workers Wings. This screening creates a space for us to reflict on labour, technolgy, and changes that occur in the realityies of work. This is also a reminder so that we, as the audience, how human value, creatrivity, and resilience are shaped in our rapidly transforming world.

The two films look at work that usually stays out of sight, each in its own way. In Workers Wings, filmmaker Ilir Hasanaj spends time with experienced workers in Kosovo whose lives have been shaped by tough, often unsafe labour, gently showing a generation that is slowly disappearing. In You Can’t Automate Me, we follow port workers doing physically demanding and risky work before ships leave harbour, getting a close look at what this work means for them day to day.

Entry is free! With a donation ticket, you help make it possible for other activities at Dokhuis to remain free as well.