Country: Thaiiland
Directed by Eve-Laure Moros and Linzy Emery
A simple but compact and informative documentary about one of the worst industrial fire accidents ever (in reality a murder as the workers were not allowed to evacuate the building in time and they got locked inside) in Kader toy factory of Nakorn Pathom, in May of 1993, that cost the lives of more than 200 young female workers and it injured seriously another 500. Although far from ambitious or deep, the film is well made, in the sense that doesn't focus to the emotion and to heartbreaking drama but use it in order to present the general inhuman conditions for the workers in Thailand, their every day struggles, the impunity of the bosses and corporations who exploit brutaly the cheap labor at will (nobody got in jail for this crime, instead the owners got an extremelly high conpensation from the insurance company), the efforts of the workers to form unions in order to protect themselves. Although many years passed and it seems as Thailand moved from the extreme poverty, the film is relevent today as not many things in reality changed: just the poor immigrants from the neighboring countries are most often the victims of this extreme exploitation rather than the locals
You can watch the full movie here: https://youtu.be/FyhHwK9Vtxg
