The 2004 D.C. Labor Film Festival starts tomorrow and ends Monday. The festival is sponsored by the DC Metro Council AFL-CIO, Debs-Jones-Douglass Institute, and the American Film Institute, and all films are shown at the AFI’s Silver Theater in Silver Spring. The concluding film will be shown in the District at the D.C. Jewish Community Center at 1529 16th St. NW. All of the films are $8.50, the final film $9.
The films include Michael Moore’s “Roger and Me,” about the impact of General Motors layoffs in Flint, Michigan in the 1980s, “Mondays in the Sun,” about laid off dock workers in Spain, a documentary called “Tell Us the Truth” about a U.S. music and education tour on neoliberal economic policy, and films about illegal mines in China, peasant revolt in the Caribbean, and undocumented workers in New York City – check the full schedule for times and descriptions.
The headline film is an Israeli film titled “Do They Catch Children Too,” and “The film focuses on foreign workers’ children, forced to deal with a complex reality that includes tough questions about their identity.” Interested? Buy tickets online.
