Aguantando el tipo
2007 · 5m · España
Directed by Encarna Martínez, Karo Miranda, Nathalie Archer, Núria París
Genres: documentary, historical
Tones: contemplative, provocative
For five years, 337 women workers at Jeager Ibérica fought against wage discrimination, pioneers in achieving equal pay and an example of perseverance in organised union struggle.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
Look, a straightforward labor doc about equal pay sounds like the most consensus pick imaginable—but four directors wrestling with five years of struggle in five minutes? That's actually *radical* constraint filmmaking, and I'm into how it refuses to sentimentalize the win.
This sits squarely in the tradition of militant documentary—Ivens, the Newsreel collectives—where formal restraint becomes an act of respect; the filmmakers' choice to compress half a decade into a contemplative frame honors both the archive and the women themselves, a formal argument about what documentary owes to history.
The decision to let 337 women occupy the same visual space rather than individualizing their struggle through interviews—that's the move that makes this work, turning anonymity into collective power instead of treating it as a limitation.