The Take

Occupy. Resist. Produce.

Directed by Avi Lewis

A documentary portrait of working-class solidarity and grassroots resistance, following unemployed factory workers reclaiming their workplace as an act of defiance against economic collapse and systemic inequality.

In suburban Buenos Aires, thirty unemployed ceramics workers walk into their idle factory, roll out sleeping mats and refuse to leave. All they want is to re-start the silent machines. But this simple act - the take - has the power to turn the globalization debate on its head. Armed only with slingshots and an abiding faith in shop-floor democracy, the workers face off against the bosses, bankers and a whole system that sees their beloved factories as nothing more than scrap metal for sale.