LaborFest commemorates those who've struggled and even lost their lives fighting for workplace rights, and today it presents the heartbreaking Turkish film Zerre (The Particle) which won the top prize at the 2012 Moscow Film Festival. The film tells the story of an unemployed woman who's forced to live in squalor while taking care of her old mother and disabled daughter. The questions she must answer to gain economic freedom are daunting, but need to be addressed. While many in a supposedly free market society would simply say "Get a job," the answer is obviously not that simple. The screening is sponsored by the nonprofit Turkish American Gezi Platform.
Zerre (The Particle) screens at 6 p.m. at the Main Library's Koret Auditorium, 100 Larkin St., S.F. Free; laborfest.net.
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