TIME THIEVES

By Cosima DANNORITZER

POLAR STAR FILMS, SL - as PROD

Documentary - Completed 2018

Your time is their business! Time Thieves is an eye-opening investigation into how our time became a currency; why ‘time poverty’ is on the rise; and, how the more we try to save time, the less we have.

Festivals
& Awards

DOCS BARCELONA 2018
Official Selection Latitud
Festival Sant Cugat Fantàstic 2018
Winner Best Script
4th International Conference on Time Perspective 2018
Festiver 2018
Special Mention International Competition
Ayuntamiento de Azpeitia, Departamento de Igualdad 2018
One World Slovakia 2018
Official Selection
    • Year of production
    • 2018
    • Genres
    • Documentary
    • Countries
    • SPAIN, FRANCE
    • Languages
    • ENGLISH, SPANISH, CATALAN
    • Duration
    • 90 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Cosima DANNORITZER
    • Producer(s)
    • Carles BRUGUERAS, Christian POPP, Marieke VAN DEN BERSSELAAR
    • Synopsis
    • Forget water, oil and rare earths - there is a new resource everyone wants: our time. Time Thieves reveals how companies monetize our time without our knowledge and how the social networks have, in their own words, become ‘the new clockmakers’.

      Who hasn’t come across the situation where an airline has us printing our own boarding passes and checking in our own luggage, saving the company a fortune in working hours? Who hasn’t spent hours assembling a piece of furniture, or struggled with an automatic cashier? Haven’t we all asked ourselves who should be paying whom for doing all the work?

      The documentary Time Thieves travels the globe to investigate how time has become money, how the clock has taken over both our working and personal lives, and how we can claim back control over this precious but finite resource.