LaborFest East Bay: Films from Turkey and France

"The Scavengers": In Turkish and Kurdesh with English subtitles: Hundreds of people who have been pushed out of their Kurdish village Ördekli Kotran's in Hakkari during 1994 are still in a battle for survival. Their work is collecting paper for recycling from the garbage in the center of Ankara. In 2001, a group of these workers started to video record their daily lives. They documented the suffering as a result of their forced migration and their struggle against unregulated face of capitalism in the capital city of Turkey. Their work tells the story of those people - from a 13 years old child looking after his family in the garbage of Ankara to an old man being dismissed from his village at the age of 60 with their only resources being their labor. Despite forced migration, alienation and degradation, they are proud of what they do.

"Central Bakery O Dridi": One night with a baker, Omar Dridi, who was born in Algeria and arrived in France after the Algerian anti-colonial struggle for liberation from France. He talks about his life, his work, his dream, the new generation.