Capital in the Twenty-First Century

Based on Thomas Piketty’s international bestseller, this documentary takes a critical look at wealth, power and the ever-increasing inequality of our time. Director Justin Pemberton uses historical flashbacks, pop culture references and interviews with leading experts to show how wealth is concentrated in fewer hands, while the majority gets less and less.

The film takes us all the way from the French Revolution to today’s globalized economy, and asks whether inequality is a temporary crisis or an inherent feature of capitalism, and warns of the consequences that extreme inequality can have for society. In addition to Piketty, the people you meet in the film include Joseph E. Stiglitz, Francis Fukuyama, Gillian Tett and Ian Bremmer.

After the screening, there will be a talk about the social and political consequences of high economic inequality with Professor Emeritus Kalle Moene from the University of Oslo. Kalle Moene has researched inequality for a number of years, and wrote the foreword to the Norwegian edition of Piketty’s Capital in the 21st Century. The talk will be led by LO economist Tiril Rustand Halvorsen.

In collaboration with LO.