Seamstresses

Synopsis

This is a story about the seamstresses in the small town of Shtip in Macedonia.
The seamstresses in Macedonia are the Cinderellas of a globalised world.
The textile industry is flourishing there. They attend to their most loyal
customers like Benetton, Versace, H & M, and do so even faster then the
Chinese completion. A seamstress has to sew 120 shirts a day. If she wants
to buy one of her shirts at Benetton, she would have to work hard for a month.
There is full employment among the women of Shtip, but men there are
unemployed. The Seamstresses shows female gaze onto the consequences
of globalisation in a country that still has no “new men”.