Ideology and subject in the posters of the movies shown at The International Worker Films Festival: The Wings of My Father (2016), The Nothingness Factory (2017), Spare Slaves (2018), Emergency Apprices Wanted (2019) and The Scream (2020) samplesof movies

The struggles of the workers, which became one of the most important subjects of social life after the Industrial Revolution, for their daily life, problems and rights have been one of the centers of interest of cinema since its early years. The first screening by the Lumiere Brothers in 1895 was the 45-second film The Workers Leaving the Factory, which clearly demonstrates this interest. Although the interest in workers continued in the following years, the real development in the field of workers' films took place in the 1960s. Strengthening workers' movements bring about a rapid increase in the number of workers' films in Turkey as well as in the world. The increase in workers' films brings with it the organization of festivals where only workers' films are shown. The first workers' film festival was organized by The International Labour Film Institute in Hamburg in 1954, the second in Vienna in 1957, the third in Stockholm in 1960 and the fourth in Tel Aviv in 1963. These festivals are followed by new ones. In Turkey, the first workers' film festival was held quite late in 2006. The festival, called the International Workers' Film Festival, is held annually and will be held annually in 2023 for the 18th time. It will be edited. In this study, the posters of the films My father wings (2016), Nothingness Factory (2017), Spare Slaves (2018), Emergency Apprentice Wanted (2019) and Scream (2020), which were determined by the purposeful sampling method among the films shown in the aforementioned festival, were examined by semiotic analysis.