The film show­ca­ses the com­plex iden­ti­ties of gar­ment workers ope­ra­ting within Sri Lanka’s appa­rel sec­tor. These workers pro­vi­de insights into how they (par­ti­al­ly) over­co­me the chal­lenges of migra­ting from the vil­la­ge to the city to work and live near glo­bal gar­ment fac­to­ries. In doing so, the film requi­res view­ers to reflect on their own pri­vi­le­ges, and pres­ents dif­fe­rent approa­ches to trans­na­tio­nal soli­da­ri­ty through a varie­ty of visu­al inserts.

The event is split into two parts:

1) The pre­mie­re will take place on Saturday 17.06.2023 at 14:00 at the FSK-Kino Segitzdamm 2, 10969 Berlin. The dura­ti­on of the docu­men­ta­ry is 90 minu­tes and will be shown in the ori­gi­nal lan­guage with English subtitles.

2) After the pre­mie­re, we ask you to join us for Tamil snacks and drinks, dis­cuss issues rai­sed in the film and iden­ti­fy poten­ti­al­ly-tail­o­red solu­ti­ons to a nexus and lin­ked approach to over­co­ming cur­rent chal­lenges in the indus­try. We will also exami­ne the posi­ti­on paper detail­ing cur­rent struc­tures and cons­traints of the appa­rel indus­try on site. The offi­ci­al part will last until 19.30.