After Work

Original Title: After Work

Country

Sweden

Director

Erik Gandini

Year

2023

Run Time

81 min

Genre

Documentary

Maturity Rating

UA

Awards/Main Selection

Chicago International Film Festival 2023: Nominee Best Documentary | Visions du Réel International Film Festival Nyon 2023: Nominee Audience Award Grand Angle Competition

Synopsis

The majority of jobs that exists today will disappear within a few decades. As technology surpasses human capacity, we have the opportunity to rethink the role of work in our lives. Are we ready for an excess of time? For a work-free existence? Sweeping across four continents, the film describes widely different lives, where some barely spend any time outside of work while others bathe in leisure. Through these stories and characters, we are thrown into the existential tension between that which is and that which could be.