UNIONS ON SCREEN

“Traveling Cinema” screens “The Willmar” (1980), the story of eight Minnesota women who launched a bank strike to protest sex discrimination. The screening is preceded by “A Crime to Fit the Punishment” (1982), a documentary about the troubled creation of the pro-labor film “Salt of the Earth” (1954), produced by blacklisted filmmakers. Tonight, 7 p.m., Barbes, 376 9th St. at Sixth Avenue, Park Slope, Brooklyn, 718-965-9177, free.

SHORT STUFF

“IFP Buzzcuts” is a series of short films from filmmakers currently working the Independent Feature Project. The program features Liselle Mei’s “Lower East Side Stories,” a day in the lives of four women who live in the same neighborhood; Joyce Dragonosky’s “Extreme Mom,” in which a woman struggles care for her child and her ailing mother; and Kimi Takesue’s “Summer of the Serpent,” about a bored 8-year-old girl whose summer afternoon is transformed by a mysterious stranger. A reception with pizza and beer follows. Tomorrow, 7 p.m., Two Boots Pioneer Theater, 155 E. 3rd St., between avenues A and B, 212-591-0434, $9 general, $6.50 seniors, members, and students, reservations suggested.

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