Screening times:
Saturday, November 28, 7:00 PM - at Bus Stop Theatre!
Celebrate the world of work and those who do it at the Canadian Labour International Film Festival (CLIFF). Over two evenings, a selection of shorts from various countries will be screened exploring themes of labour and workers’ rights. Presented by Mayworks Kjipuktuk/Halifax and Carbon Arc Cinema.
Day 1 of CLIFF is held at Bus Stop Theatre. It has a 85-minute run time.
From Bring Them Home
Esto Esta Frio (This Is Cold) – 23 min | Documentary
Iván Fernández de Córdoba (Spain) | Arabic, Catalan, Chinese and Spanish with English subtitles
In Valencia, delivery workers and customers reveal the hidden side of food delivery, questioning who really pays the price for our demand for immediacy.
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Bring Them Home – 8 min | Documentary
dir. Matt Reynolds (USA) | English and Spanish with English subtitles
Alex and Yan fled persecution in Cuba to marry in the US. When the federal government suddenly detains them and threatens deportation, their union comes together in an unprecedented way to fight for their release.
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No Safe Shift: Unravelling discrimination among nurses in Canada – 20 min | Documentary
dir. Andréa Monteiro (Canada) | English
Through the voices of nurse leaders and a labour lawyer, No Safe Shift traces how systemic racism shapes everyday realities within the nursing profession in Canada. What emerges is a system where safety is not equally shared.
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Queers in Carhartts – 14 min | Experimental
dir. Andrew Deveaux, Kitz Willman and Devin West (Canada) *Made in Halifax! | English
Queers in Carhartts renders the experiences of trans and queer people working in skilled trades. A playfully dead-serious experiential and experimental collaboration of interconnected, layered, messy, pluralistic, noisy, sometimes incoherent, and deeply symbolic creative narratives marking the lives of queers in their Carhartts.
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Key{stone} Lime{stone} – 4 min | Experimental
dir. Anne Ciecko (USA) | English with English subtitles
Histories and memories of industry (especially cement manufacturing in the Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania), domestic labor, immigration, and family are entwined in a merging of narrative poetry, stop-motion animation (melding mineral and organic materials), and documentary-style video footage.
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Videoclub 2001 – 16 min | Comedy
dir. Guillermo Polo (Spain) | Spanish with English subtitles
Fall 2005. Digitalization is unstoppable, and video stores face extinction. Mila, a rebellious young woman who inherits “Videoclub 2001” after her father’s death, must decide whether to fight to keep it alive—for her family, her community, and her love of cinema.
Tickets Pay-What-You-Choose
A reminder that Day 1 of CLIFF happens at Bus Stop Theatre on Gottingen St!
