Limits of Europe

synopsis

Investigative journalist Saša Uhlová decided to map the conditions in which people in demanding and menial jobs work in Europe. She travels to Germany, Ireland and France and goes undercover in jobs that the locals usually don't want to do. Whether it's working on a farm, in a hotel or in social services, in all cases she quickly finds herself drained both physically and mentally. In her documentary diary, she draws the invisible boundaries that separate a livelihood earned under dignified conditions from slave labour with scant prospects for improvements in salary and living standard.

“In a very general sense, you could say it's a film about human dignity, about caring and about what work is in the broadest sense of the word.”

Source: Refresher

biography

Apolena Rychlíková (1989) is a Czech filmmaker and journalist, winner of the Journalist Award and the Journalist Quail Award. She was the first Czech woman in history to be nominated for the prestigious European Journalism Award. At Ji.hlava IDFF, the audience has already had the opportunity to see her documentaries Czech Journal: The Limits of Work (2017), Don't Give Up: The City's Clinic (2015) and Family (2013).

more about film

director:	Apolena Rychlíková
producer:	Vít Klusák, Filip Remunda, Tereza Horská
photography:	Jan Šípek, Petr Racek
editing:	Kateřina Krutská Vrbová
music:	Jonatan Pastirčák
sound:	Martin Kuhn
co-producer:	Joel Farges, Peter Kerekes, Olga Prud‘homme Farges, Anna Mach Rumanová