How About You?

E tu come stai? Italiy 2022 Directors Filippo Maria Gori, Lorenzo Gori Writer Filippo Maria Gori 1t 40m Italian language, English subtitles Age 15 years

Over the last five years the ex-GKN Factory Collective has demonstrated a very real possibility for a  worker-lead, interdisciplinary and inter-sectoral driven ecological transition. Today as they continue to face tumultuous political delays and seek further public shareholding and financial support, we recall the beginnings of this struggle, the spark that propelled the momentum, with the screening of the film E tu come stai? (How About You?) on the 2nd of June, 18:00 at Cinemateket Trondheim.

On July 9th, 2021 the GKN Driveline workers of Florence, an automotive company, find out that their factory in Campi Bisenzio has been closed, without any warning or economic recession, just delocalisation for speculative purposes. The reaction of the Council of workers at the factory level is immediate. The workers occupy the building, they supervise to ensure its security and initiate a mobilization which involves the whole area and ends up joining other protests in the country. “We rise!”, the Florentine partisan motto, is their slogan. To avoid top-down political and financial calculations, the GKN workers community has to face endless obstacles, scams and accidents. The more they go forward, and the more the struggle turns out to be not only an instrument for collective defense, but also a different way of seeing life, where taking care of others represents the first step in the care of oneself.

The screening is hosted by NTNU Community, Team Art. Free entrance!