DC Labor FilmFest Weekend Line-Up
Monday, October 17, 2011
(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)The 11th annual DC Labor FilmFest continues today with screenings of Inside Job, The Company Men, The
Whistleblower and Moon. Inside Job (2:30p) is a true-life heist movie
that exposes the shocking truth behind the economic crisis of 2008. Ben Affleck
stars in The Company Men (5p) as a
victim of corporate downsizing, and in The
Whistleblower (7:30p), Rachel Weisz stars as a Nebraska cop who takes a
job working as a peacekeeper in post-war Bosnia and stumbles into the sordid
world of Balkan sex trafficking and finds her fellow U.N. peacekeepers
implicated in the trade. The evening finishes up with a showing of Moon (9:15p), this week’s City Paper pick, starring Sam Rockwell as an
astronaut miner with serious contract issues. The FilmFest continues tomorrow
with a second screening of Moon (3p),
Made in Dagenham (5:05) and Up in the Air (7:25p).
