The world runs on the labour of women, the hands that feed, provide and package our modern-day privileges. She (2025), directed by Italian filmmaker and anthropologist Parsifal Reparato, uses several documentary styles to tell this story including observation, interviews and stylised re-creations. She focuses on a Vietnamese electronic factory in the Bac Ninh province, and the women behind this global supply chain. The documentary delivers an intimate yet political critique of this often-invisible labour.

The film starts with a faraway, still shot of a family eating dinner, accompanied by the quiet hum of the night. A mother videocalls her daughter, someone she hasn’t seen in person for a long time.

She doesn’t follow just one story, however. It presents fragments of life centred a

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