NEXT SOHEE (South Korea, 2022, 134′) Tuesday October 3rd, 8.30 p.m, Cinema Massimo, Room 1 Inauguration of Job Film Days 2023 – Opening Film The inauguration of the fourth edition of Job Film Days will be on Tuesday, October 3rd at 8.30 p.m at Cinema Massimo, Room 1 with the screening of the opening film Da-Eum-So-Hee by July Jung (South Korea, 2022). It is the second feature film by July Jung, Da-Eum-So-Hee was presented at Cannes Festival in 2022. The film shows the traumatic experience of a student who decided to choose practical vocational training and started to work at a call center. Very soon she has to face unbearable pressure implemented by an unscrupulous company, which will impact heavily on her life. The screening will be preceded by greetings of the authorities and partners, which will officially start the 2023 edition of the Festival. The actress Stefania Rosso will present the evening. Admission modes: the entrance is reserved for guests only. There will also be a share of tickets available online and at the cinema?s ticket office.   Buy ticket online Director, screenplay: July JungPhotography: Kim Il-yeonEditing: Lee Young-lim, Han Ji-younMusic: Jang Young-gyuActors: Kim Si-eun, Doona BaeProduction: Crank-up Film […]

Wednesday October 4th, 10 a.m, Order of Labour Consultants Headquarters, via Pietro Giannone 10 Event in collaboration with the Order of Labour Consultants of Turin Job Film Days, in collaboration with the Order of Labour Consultants of Turin, will present on Wednesday October 4th, at 10 a.m, three short films that show different aspects of the world of labor and different perspectives. Arbete at Alla! (Sweden, 2022), Rosa e pezza (Italy, 2022) and Normale, trop Normale (France, 2022) reflect on the gazes of the directors from three Countries like Sweden, Italy and France, offering a rich starting point for the meeting that follows the screening. The encounter will be attended by Luisella Fassino (President of the Order of Labour Consultants), Luca Furfaro (Coordinator Study Center of Turin), Virginia Bertone (President of the Young Hoteliers’ Group Turin), Carlotta Castagneris (President of Young Pharmacists Turin), Marco Frus (President of Young Lawyers Turin), Dennis Maseri (National President Young Confcooperative). Admission mode: entrance upon invitation   ROSA E PEZZA (Italy, 2022, 17′) Direction: Giulia Regini Screenplay: Giulia Regini, Alessandro Logli, Elisa Pulcini Actors: Enrico Borello, Gabriele Di Stadio, Luciano Teodoli Production: CSC Production – Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia Sergio works in the family butcher’s […]

OR DE VIE (Burkina Faso/Benin/Francia, 2023, 84′) Wednesday October 4th, 9 p.m, Cinema Massimo, Room 3 Opening of the Sub-Saharan Africa section Event in collaboration with International Training Center – ITCILO On Wednesday 4th October at 9 pm at Cinema Massimo, the Sub-Saharan Africa section of Job Film Days 2023 opens with the screening of the movie Or de vie by Boubakar Sangaré (Burkina Faso-Benin-France, 2023). The Malian filmmaker records the lives of adolescents who work every day in the unhealthy and unprotected gold mines of southern Burkina Faso, with rare moments of leisure. The evening is organized in collaboration with the International Training Centre – ITCILO, based in Turin. Presenting the section and the film, a national preview, will be Giuseppe Gariazzo (film critic and contributor to Job Film Days) and Daniela Ricci (teacher and film researcher, expert in the cinematography of Africa and diasporas). This will be followed by a meeting with Rute Mendes (ITCILO Labour Policy and Analysis Programme Officer). Admission mode: The event will be accessible through the purchase of the tickets online or at Cinema Massimo’s ticket offices.   Buy ticket online Director, screenplay: Boubacar SangaréPhotography: Isso Emmanuel BationoEditing: Gladys JoujouSound: Seydou PorgoProduction: Imedia, Merveilles […]

GORGONA (Italy/Usa 2022, 90′) Wednesday October 4th, 9 p.m, Cinema Greenwich Village Event in collaboration with National Cinema Museum Association and LiberAzioni Job Film Days will present the documentary Gorgona by Antonio Tibaldi (Italy-USA, 2022), Wednesday October 4th. The film won the Festival dei Popoli 2022 of Florence as best Italian documentary. The documentary narrates an experience of a re-educational path based on labor, in the last agricultural penal colony in Europe, the prison island of Gorgona in Tuscany. It will be presented by Vittorio Canavese (National Cinema Museum Association). It will be followed by a meeting with Enrica Capra (co-producer of the film) and Antonio Genovese (Council of the Bar Association of Turin), Vittorio Canavese will moderate. The event will be accredited for training by the Turin Order of lawyers. Admission modes: the event will be accessible through the purchase of tickets online or at the Cinema Greenwich Village ticket offices.   Buy ticket online Director, screenplay, photography: Antonio TibaldiEditing: Valentina AndreoliSound: Alessio Fornasiero, Todd ToonProduction: No Permits Produktions, GraffitiDocDistribution: Bloom Distribuzione Gorgona prison-island, 19 miles from Livorno, is the last agricultural penal colony in Europe. On this piece of land, about 90 inmates undertake a re-educational path based […]

OBJECT WOMAN / SUBJECT WOMAN The female image between 1950s and 1970s Thursday October 5th, 3 p.m, Cinema Massimo, Room 3 Event in collaboration with CSC – Archivio Nazionale Cinema Impresa e Associazione Scuole Tecniche San Carlo Also this year, Job Film Days collaborates with CSC-National Corporate Film Archive, headquarters in Ivrea, and San Carlo Technical Schools Association, with a special event which will take place at Cinema Massimo on Thursday October 5 at 3 p.m. Short films and commercials which focus on women and the change of their image will be screened, through advertising in Italian society between the 1950s and the beginning of the 1970s. This change caused the diffusion and development of some jobs, such as those dedicated to beauty care and women?s fashion. However, all the contradictions of this model with respect to the role of women in society will emerge at the beginning of the 1970s. The event will be presented by Elena Testa (CSC-National Corporate Film Archive) and the screenings will be followed by the debate in which Roberta Seno (general director San Carlo Technical Schools Association) ed Eleonora Chiais (Humanities Department-Dams, University of Turin) will intervene. Access mode: The event will be accessible […]

THE KILLING OF A JOURNALIST (Danimarca/Repubblica Ceca/Usa, 2022, 100′) Thursday October 5th, 6.30 p.m, Cinema Greenwich Village Event in collaboration with Turin Order of Lawyers Job Film Days, in collaboration with the Turin Order of Lawyers, will present The Killing of a Journalist by Matt Sarnecki (Denmark-Czech Republic-USA, 2022) at Cinema Greenwich Village, on Thursday October 5th, at 6.30 p.m. Ján Kuciak, investigative journalist, is murdered in his home with his girlfriend. Strong reactions are triggered and Ján’s colleagues mobilize to uncover the truth, revealing a disturbing political and institutional intrigue. The screening will be followed by a meeting with Stefania Aoi (journalist) and Sara Panelli (magistrate at the Turin Public Prosecutor’s Office with experience in the European Commission). The event will be accredited for the training by the Turin Order of Lawyers. Admission modes: the event will be accessible through the purchase of tickets online or at Cinema Greenwich Village ticket offices. Direction: Matt SarneckiPhotography: Anna SmoronováEditing: Janus Billeskov JansenMusic: Kristian Eidnes AndersenProduction: Final Cut for Real, OCCRP Ján Kuciak is 27 years old when is found dead with his girlfriend Martina Ku?nírová at home. The brutal homicide triggers strong reactions in all Slovakia while Ján’s colleagues are mobilized […]

COTTON 100% (Germany/Uzbekistan, 2022, 68′) Thursday October 5th, 10 a.m, Polytechnic of Turin – Room 5 Event in collaboration with CGIL-CISL-UIL Turin and Polytechnic of Turin Job Film Days presents in collaboration with CGIL-CISL-UIL Turin and Polytechnic of Turin, the film Cotton 100% (Germany-Uzbekistan, 2022) by Uzbek director Mikhail Borodin at the Polytechnic of Turin, on Thursday, October 5th at 10 a.m. Borodin?s previous feature film, Convenience Store, was selected at the Section Panorama of the 72 edition of Berlinale. The screening, in national preview, will be the occasion to reflect on the heavy work conditions and the environmental repercussions of the cotton industry in Uzbekistan, which Borodin is exceptionally able to access. The event is addressed to Workers’ Safety Representatives (RLS and RLST) and to students of the course “digital and creative industries” held by professor Tiziana Mazali (Polytechnic of Turin, Department of Project Sciences and Spatial Policy). Followed by a debate with the participation of Tiziana Mazali, Francesca Re David (CGIL National Secretariat) e Evelin Toth (Programme Manager for Workers’ Activities for Europe and Central Asia at the International Training Centre, ITCILO). Moderated by Massimiliano Quirico (Safety and Work Association). Admission mode: entrance upon invitation Director: Mikhail BorodinScreenplay, […]

Friday October 6, 10 a.m, University of Turin, Palazzo Nuovo, Sala Lauree Terracini Event in collaboration with Democratic Judiciary and University of Turin – DAMS On Friday October 6th, Job Film Days presents, in collaboration with Democratic Judiciary and University of Turin – DAMS, I due volti della giustizia. The narration in television series of the work of magistrates and judicial police. In this event, with an innovative slant and with the participation of experts from the world of justice and education, it will be possible to discuss what is true, plausible, fictional or imaginary in the representation of investigations, trials, and the work of magistrates and judicial police in Italian television series, also through the presentation of short films taken from some series. The event, aimed in particular at students of the DAMS course (Department of Humanities) and the University’s Department of Law, is open to the public. The meeting will be led by Giuseppe Battarino (jurist and writer) and Giulia Francesca Muggeo (University of Turin, DAMS). Enrico Cassini (trade union lecturer of labour law) will also participate. Admission mode: free entrance.

OMBRE A MEZZOGIORNO / Shadows at Midday (Italy, 2023, 75′) XXX X ottobre, ore XX.XX, Cinema Massimo, Sala X   Buy ticket online Direction: Enrico CarnuccioScreenplay: Nicodemo Bumbaca, Enrico CarnuccioPhotography: Stefano CrociEditing: Enrico Carnuccio, Enrico MasiMusic: MujuraProduction: Caucaso Based on the micro story of the director?s family, cue for a wider analysis, the film analyzes the great internal Italian migration in the 1960s and 1980s. Through personal histories, the documentary makes a journey from Calabria to Turin. The documentary highlights the displacement, the uprooting, the disorientation of who left their land and had to relocate in an unfamiliar city and a new work environment, that of the factory. Enrico Carnuccio (Turin, Italy, 1981) is a photographer, filmmaker and researcher of environmental acoustics. He graduated as a civil engineer, then he specialized in the study of the soundscape. Between 2010 and 2020 he lived in Lisbon and Heidelberg, developing his visual approach as a photographer. He consolidated his experience as a filmmaker by collaborating with Caucaso Factory and by working on the projects: Shelter – Farewell to Eden (2019), Lucas a lucendo – A proposito di Carlo Levi (2019) e Terra incognita. In 2019 he produced and directed Ökofast, an experimental […]

RISO AMARO (Bitter rice / Italy, 1949, 108′) Saturday October 7th, 10 a.m, Cinema Centrale Arthouse Event in collaboration with Cinema Centrale Arthouse The Long March The collaboration with Cinema Centrale Arthouse continues this year to present to the public cinema about labor issues from years past, with a focus on movies made in Italy and on topics that are always topical. On October 7th at 10 a.m. at cinema Centrale, the great classic in the history of Italian cinema Riso Amaro by Giuseppe De Santis (Italy, 1949) will be presented. The movie explores the reality of the Mondine through the story of a couple of thieves on the run and a criminal and sentimental plot that ends in tragedy. Its numerous actors include Silvana Mangano, Vittorio Gassman and Raf Vallone. Gaetano Renda will present the film. Giorgio Simonelli (cinema and television scholar) will intervene. Admission mode: free entrance.   Direction: Giuseppe De SantisScreenplay: Corrado Alvaro, Giuseppe De Santis, Carlo Lizzani, Carlo Musso, Ivo Perilli, Gianni PucciniPhotography: Otello MartelliEditing: Gabriele VarrialeMusic: Goffredo PetrassiActors: Silvana Mangano, Vittorio Gassman, Raf Vallone, Doris Dowling, Checco Rissone, Nico Pepe, Adriana Sivieri, Lia Corelli, Carlo MazzarellaProduction: Lux Film On the run from the police after […]

TRES EN LA DERIVA DEL ACTO CREATIVO / Three in the Drift of the Creative Art (Argentina, 2022, 96′) Sunday October 8th, 8 p.m, Cinema Massimo, Room 1 Award Ceremony Job Film Days 2023 – Closing Film The closing evening of the fourth edition of Job Film Days will be on Sunday October 8th at 8 p.m at Cinema Massimo. During the evening, the award ceremony for the festival’s two competitive sections will take place, Lavoro 2023″ JFD International Cinematographic Award – INAIL Piemonte, the international contest dedicated to documentaries and fictional feature films which tell different aspects of the labor world, “. The other competition, “Job for the Future 2023” JFD Award – Chamber of Commerce of Turin, is dedicated to short films created in the European Union for directors under 40 years of age that talk about emerging works and the challenges of contemporary labor. The award ceremony for the best cinematographic subjects on work themes found in the Festival will also take place, as part of the Writing Workshop “From the idea to the subject Job Film Days 2023”. The workshop was organized by the Job Film Days Association ETS in collaboration with Associazione Bottega Miller (Vercelli) […]

LA CLASSE OPERAIA VA IN PARADISO (The Working Class Goes to Heaven – Italy, 1971, 125′) Sunday October 8th, 10 a.m, Cinema Centrale Arthouse Event in collaboration with Cinema Centrale Arthouse The Long March Tribute to Gian Maria Volontè 90 years birth anniversary. The collaboration with Cinema Centrale Arthouse continues this year to present cinema about labor issues of the past year to the public, with a focus on films made in Italy and themes that are always topical. Sunday October 8th will be the occasion to rewatch La classe operaia va in Paradiso by director Elio Petri (Italy, 1971) at Cinema Centrale Arthouse at 10.00 am. A tribute by the Festival to Gian Maria Volontè 90 years after his birth, with this unforgettable movie that offers a reflection on the alienation of working-class people in the 1970s, shedding light on the conflicts that characterize many current working situations in different ways. Presented by Caterina Taricano (journalist and film critic). Admission mode: free entrance. Direction: Elio PetriScreenplay: Ugo Pirro, Elio PetriPhotography: Luigi KuveillerEditing: Ruggero MastroianniMusic: Ennio MorriconeActors: Gian Maria Volonté, Mariangela Melato, Luigi Diberti, Salvo Randone, Renata Zamengo, Mietta Albertini, Flavio BucciProduction: Euro International Film Ludovico Massa, known as Lulu, […]

INNESTI (Grafts / Italy, 2022, 80′) Tuesday September 26th, 9.00 p.m., Cinema Italia – Vercelli Event in collaboration with the Bottega Miller Association and Raccolti Festival On Tuesday 26 September at 9.00 pm at the Cinema Italia in Vercelli there will be a screening of Innesti, a film by Sandro Bozzolo (Italy, 2022) presented on the occasion of the “Raccolti al Cinema” review of the Raccolti festival. First collaboration with Raccolti, the event establishes the collaboration with the Bottega Miller Association and is part of the off events of Job Film Days. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Sandro Bozzolo. Enrica Viola (producer of the film) also participates. Access method: free entry.   Director: Sandro BozzoloSubject and screenplay: Sandro Bozzolo, Enrica Viola, Francesca ArossaPhotography: Sandro Bozzolo, Luciano FedericiEditing: Marco Lo BaidoProduction: UNA Film In the South of the Piedmont Region, the filmmaker retraces his personal relationship with his father Ettore, an ex motorway toll collector and chestnut grower. He was capable of being moved by the immensity of the forest, where he reclaims abandoned chestnut groves. The images testify twenty years of life, obstacles and awareness-raising. The graft is the main thread, the agricultural practice whereby […]

DEMÉNOI / TIED (Greece, 2019, 53′) Saturday September 30th, 3.30 pm, Polo del ‘900, Via del Carmine, 14 Event in collaboration with the National Cinematographic Archive of the Resistance and the Franco Antonicelli Cultural Union Job Film Days presents the film Demenoid (Tied) (Greece, 2019), by the Greek director Tassos Morfis, winner of the 2021 of the second edition of Job Film Days. The film, which represents one of the most critical periods in the contemporary history of Greece, is part of the Sea Review organized by the Polo del ‘900 and coordinated by the Franco Antonicelli Cultural Union: the sea as a transit space, attempted or successful, of bodies and goods, and of work on ships and in ports. The sea as a starting point for research and cultural production. Paola Olivetti (National Film Archive of the Resistance) presents the film.   Director, story: Tassos MorfisPhotography: Yannis DrakoulidisEditing: Gerasimos DomenikosMusic: Giannis PapaioannouProduction: AthensLive, Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, Fosphotos Athens, 2015. Greece is close to bankruptcy. One of the country’s largest shipping companies, the Lesvos Shipping Company, is in financial collapse. 320 naval workers, without pay for months, go on strike against it. Seven months of strenuous struggle – from the port […]