After Work (2023) : distribution, intrigue et streaming

Released in 2023, After Work is a documentaire film directed by Erik Gandini, running about 81 minutes.

What it’s about. Kuwait’s constitution says that every person has the right to a job, so in some places 20 people are employed for one person’s job. In South Korea, they work so much that a policy has been introduced to turn off computers at the end of the day so that employees can’t work any more. In the US, they give up over 500 million holiday hours each year, while Amazon’s drivers are trying to form a union. Meanwhile, robots are poised to take over most jobs and put the rest of us out of work. Work is so crucial to our identity and what we spend our waking hours on that it is barely noticed anymore. A lot has happened since a group of Puritan priests invented the concept of work ethic in the 1600s, and in the 21st century the very concept of work is in many ways disintegrating. A perfect situation for a filmmaker like Swedish mastermind Erik Gandini, who travels the world to explore what the concept of work means today – if it means anything at all.

Who’s in it. After Work stars Noam Chomsky as Self and Yánis Varoufákis as Self.

How it landed. With an audience score of 6.3/10, After Work has drawn a solid, mixed-to-positive response.

Where to watch. In Australie you can stream it on DocPlay and DocPlay Amazon Channel. See the full, country-by-country breakdown on our where to watch After Work page.

If you liked it. Fans of After Work tend to enjoy One Direction : Le Film, Burn the Stage - The Movie, BTS World Tour: Love Yourself - Japan Edition and Senna.