The X Factor Saison 3

In 1978 Deng Xiaoping set up Shenzhen as a Special Economic Zone in China, and this decision led to the rapid development of Guangdong economy. Numerous factories have been established, millions of people are attracted because of gold rush. Over 30 years later, young people who were away from their home have already stepped in the midlife. Guangdong has become a representative of job hunting and has been drawing a newly young generation who has faith and uncertainty to the future. This video revolves around three working-class boys who are the 90s generation.

This acclaimed observational documentary produces an immersive experience of a Shenzhen factory. An unmissable analysis of the most important social transformation of our time.

In late 2004, 125 Philippines women migrant workers came to the Taiwan International Workers’ Association (TIWA) to file complaints for not receiving their salary. While filming there were sweet scenes of lesbian couples cuddling each other in front of the camera. This documentary of a labor struggle unexpectedly became love stories. These women courageously fight against the state policies while struggling for love!

Anezia dos Santos talks about her childhood in the Vila de Operários da Sociedade Anônima Fábrica Votorantim, in the interior of São Paulo.

The girl did not have time to prepare for the exams in music and made a wish – to successfully pass the exam. To fulfill her wish, her friends from the wish fulfillment factory come to her aid. But in their enthusiasm, they messed up everything and her wish did not come true, and she had to work hard and prepare for the exam in the usual way without magic.

Corporate film of the Stearine Candle Factory in Gouda, Netherlands. Images of the building complex and the production process.

Philips presents itself as a modern, international company that has its own laboratory, power station, and transport service. Notable in the film is the detailed attention paid to the various components of the lightbulbs. Concert footage of the ‘Philip’s Harmonie’ in performance shows that Philips was proud of the many facilities it provided to its employees. The Eindhoven-based factory offered its workers accommodation, sports, and recreation.

Shots of the Dutch factory and its staff; including images of the departure of the office staff, a bicycle race, a festive procession with fanfare, the railway complex and recordings of Joseph Partouns, an illiterate worker who discovered the process by which zinc white from black and white can be obtained.