Impact Days Catalogue
By Parsifal Reparato and Parsifal Reparato

SHE

SHE are the voices and the bodies that narrate the working conditions in the largest electronic industrial park in Vietnam, employing over 100,000 workers. 80% of them are women who have signed up for 12-hour shifts, enduring intense work rhythms, strict discipline, and constant control both inside and outside the factory.The suburbs surrounding the industrial park feature suffocating architecture, inadequate for the development of individuals and families. SHE is a choral story in which the workers’ bodies are revealed piece by piece to ensure their necessary anonymity. SHE is a mother, daughter, wife, single, migrant, and resident at the same time: each protagonist begins with different circumstances, but all are connected by the exploitation they face. SHE is the engine of the electronic industry in Asia. The narrative parallels the lives of these workers, capturing the conflicts and strained family relationships that are shaped by years of factory work.

Sections : Impact Days, Impact Days
Country : Vietnam
Original language : Vietnamese
Directors
Parsifal Reparato
Parsifal Reparato (Italy)
Producers
Parsifal Reparato
Parsifal Reparato (Italy)
Quentin Laurent (France)
AntropicA
Les Films de l’œil sauvage
Completion
February 2025
Impact Statement
We aim to bring the film to Vietnamese female workers, using it as a catalyst not only to raise awareness but also to drive policy changes in Vietnam and South Korea. We believe the film has the potential to inspire new forms of worker self-organization. Our vision includes organizing meetings where workers can connect with trade unions outside factory environments, establishing information points in industrial suburbs—managed by trade unions or NGOs—where workers can learn about their rights, and promoting the establishment of a local observatory to monitor factory conditions. Additionally, we plan to support trade unions in campaigns to train both representatives and workers, using the film as a visual training tool to enhance these efforts. Through these initiatives, we aim to empower workers and foster meaningful change.

WE stand for workers’ and women rights. Our goal is to contribute to improving work conditions within big electronic corporations, producing all over the world, overall in Vietnam and South Korea.
Impact Goals
  1. Promote 40 hours working week for all in the electronics industry in Asia, a limited use of overtime work and higher basic wages.
  2. Promote awareness campaigns to use consumer pressure to force TNCs to improve working conditions throughout the entire supply chain. A strong emphasis on the gender dimension and the specific conditions of women workers (who consititute the large majority of workers in electronics).
  3. Promote an alliance among Trade Unions, NGOs and ethically-oriented consumer groups to support workers in electronics.
  4. Promote a specific campaign in Vietnam and South Korea to support electronics workers in cooperation with trade unions.
Impact Strategy
  • Promote an internarional/European campaign on "bloody electronics" supporting sustainable supply chains - in cooperation with NGOs, Trade Unions and academia.
  • Starting point is to create a Museums of Industry and Labour in Vietnam and South Korea.
  • Targeting ILO to promote tripartite dialogue in Southeast Asian countries on wages and working hours.
  • Create international magazine and podcast, with poems, interviews and article by workers.
  • A targeted campaign for the European Parliament - supporting decent work in electronics as criterium for trade agreements.
Contact
Primary contact
Parsifal Reparato (Italy): antropicafilm@gmail.com
Participants present at the Impact Days
Parsifal Reparato (Italy)
Valérie Montmartin (France)

Vietnam:
Institute for European Studies (IES)
Vietnam Academy of Social Science (VASS)
LIFE CENTER)
CDI The Center for Development and Integration
Trade Union University (TUU)
VGCL

Italy:
University of Naples “L’Orientale”
CGIL (trad union)

South Korea:
KCTU (trade union)
SHARPS
IPEN

Vietnam:
Institute for European Studies (IES)
Vietnam Academy of Social Science (VASS)
LIFE CENTER)
CDI The Center for Development and Integration
Trade Union University (TUU)
VGCL

Italy:
University of Naples “L’Orientale”
CGIL (trad union)

South Korea:
KCTU (trade union)
SHARPS
IPEN