Director: Various Directors
The many lives of workers. “Born Secret” (dir. Riley Fitchpatrick; 19 min.) heads to Oak Ridge, Tennessee, the secret city whose invisible labor helped build the atomic bomb. In “Sole (ì–¼)” (dir. Haneol Lee; 12 min.), a Korean American cobbler in Nashville takes such pride in his craft that it becomes something closer to a way of being. From there, we meet a filmmaker’s mother in “Sudakas” (dir. Ricardo Betancourt; 13 min.) as she works low-wage jobs while enabling her son to tell her story and his. In “One Last Order” (dirs. Lauren DeFilippo & Sam Soko; 21 min.), a beloved cashier works her final shift at a Gainesville drive-thru. Finally, in “Auto Queens” (dir. Sraiyanti Haricharan; 31 min.), Mohana and Leela Rani, drivers from Tamil Nadu’s first women-led auto rickshaw union, form a friendship that is fierce, funny, and unshakeable.Â