HER JOB
15+
A film about a woman’s empowerment through employment, during the Greek financial crisis. Panayota is a 37-year-old mum who leads a quiet, modest life with her unemployed, domineering gambler husband Kostas, their rebellious daughter and their sensitive son. To ease the burden on her family, Panayota gets a job for the first time in her life, as a cleaning lady at a large DIY store. She becomes a model employee, gains financial independence and friendships but also faces a ruthless system of exploitation and competition. Meanwhile, her family life improves and she gains the respect and appreciation she never had. But how will a series of lay-offs at work affect her?
Schedule
No upcoming sessions scheduled for Melbourne
Director
Nikos Labôt
Writer
Nikos Labôt & Katerina Kleitsioti
Country
Greece | France | Serbia, 2019
Running Time
90mins
Category
Drama
Language
Greek with English subtitles
Starring
Marisha Triantafyllidou, Dimitris Imellos, Maria Filini, Konstantinos Gogoulos, Eleni Karagiorgi, Danai Primali, Orfeas Angelopoulos, Dimitra Vlagopoulou