International Competition

The film crew’s curiosity to find out what lies behind ‘Made in China’ labels that many of us wear on our own clothes often enraged Chinese authorities. They would ban the shooting of the film a few times, confiscate the footage and arrest and inquire them. This is not the first time that a film is focused on workers deprived of their rights. So what is it in this film that is so disturbing? Probably the fact that all the deprived people have names and faces here. We meet Jasmine whose job is to remove surplus threads from finished blue jeans. She has come to town from her village and is earning 6 cents per hour. She works seven days a week and does not get paid for her overtime hours. She is sharing her room with 11 other girls. And if labor inspectors come by and ask her how she is, she replies in fear: ‘Great!’