MODERN SLAVERY, OR THE BUBBLE OF SMART WORKING

Hi there, movie goers, time for another go! Sorry We Missed You is on next. Rick, Abby, Seb and Liza are a family caught up in the wave of the 2008 financial crash. To help the upkeep Rick goes self-employed and delivers online orders, but the inhuman working pace, the enslaving technological control system and the underpaid treatment strip him of dignity and undermine his family relationships.

Drawn from the real story of Don Lane, a diabetes sick courier who died of the illness because he’d given up scheduled hospital care after having once got a 150 pound fine for skipping deliveries, the movie raises the issue of the abhorrent reality of the gig economy and makes all of us wonder whose basic working rights we violate when we click our next online purchase order with an e-commerce titan.

Roll up to Concordia, you flick fans! Show’s on at 08:00 p.m. on Thursday 15 and ticket’s five euro for Capriotti school.