A ROMANTIC comedy about outsourcing, a tale of a chicken’s escape from an oppressive environment and a satirical look at life in an office cubicle will be presented at Dublin’s Labour Film Festival.
The Working Titles film series takes place at the Irish Film Institute in Temple Bar, Dublin, until tomorrow as part of the centenary celebrations of Siptu, the country’s largest trade union.
The festival is the first of its kind to be held in Ireland and sees Dublin following in the footsteps of cities such as Toronto, Los Angeles and Washington DC, where similar events have taken place.
Chris Garlock, one of the organisers of the Washington DC festival who is introducing the Dublin event, said: “Given what’s going on with the world economy, films about work and workers’ lives are of a lot of interest to folks at the moment.”
Tonight film historian Kevin Brownlow presents Winstanley, a tribute to Gerard Winstanley, a 17th-century radical. Tomorrow, Chicken Run, starring Mel Gibson, will be screened, as will Office Space, about a bored office worker who falls in love with a waitress played by Jennifer Aniston.
For schedule see www.irishfilm.ie
