A film about the struggle of the workers who resisted the privatization of the factory

ITAS machine tool factory in Inavec is the only factory in transition countries that the workers managed to take over, he says Sabina Krešić, producer of the film "Factories for Workers", which shows the struggle of ITAS machine factory workers for the survival of the company they occupied in 2005.

Documentary directed by Srdjan Kovačević will be shown tonight in the regional selection of the 13th edition of the International Documentary Film Festival Underhill Fest in Podgorica, on the court of the Budućnost Basketball Club in Njegoševo Park, at 21.10:XNUMX p.m.

Sabina Krešić is a guest of the festival, and today she spoke at a press conference and pointed out that she is glad that the film will have its Montenegrin premiere at Underhill.

The factory, she says, was built in the XNUMXs and once fed half of northern Croatia. Aware of this, the workers resisted privatization.

"So the workers inside the factory resisted the privatization and looting that was a completely normal model of taking over social ownership. This film actually follows the workers inside the factory and does not go outside that space. In this way, it actually questions whether self-management, which was once in the former system was a very changed super economic model of business and organization of workers and the system, is it even possible today, in today's system which is extremely capitalist and liberal? The film also questions how important we are to each other as a collective, and where individualism will actually prevail" , she reveals.

The film had its world premiere at the festival in Sheffield, later it traveled and won awards at various festivals, and it is particularly attractive for the Montenegrin area and industrial trends...

The film "Traffic" by the director Dora Slakoper, in the "7 short" selection, opens tonight's Underhill program, at 21 p.m. on the court of the Budućnost Basketball Club in Njegoševo Park.

In the film "Traffic", a student of editing at the Academy of Dramatic Arts in Zagreb, Dora Slakoper, in a few minutes of the short hybrid documentary depicts the everyday hard work of a saleswoman in a kiosk.

After the screening of that and the film "Factories for Workers", the film "Where are we going" will follow Ruslana Fedotova which will be shown at 23.10:XNUMX p.m. The film's synopsis reveals that the action is set in the underground corridors of the Moscow metro.

"The accordion player disguised as Santa Claus talks to a disturbed passenger about Dostoyevsky, the universe and the Russian soul; people happily sing for the New Year; and a salesman trying in vain to sell his giant balloons. With the sound of screeching and rattling trains in the background, we voyeuristically witness everything that happens here - from details like a flickering light bulb or a sleeping child, to a spontaneous dance with a street musician or a fiery political discussion," the announcement reads.