120m; U.S.
Director: Jennifer Gilomen and Sally Rubin
Synopsis: MINE follows several members of a community in Eastern Kentucky as their community and landscape begins to change dramatically through mining.
Contact: c/o BAVC, 2727 Mariposa, 2nd Floor San Francisco, California 94110 (415) 558-2121 http://minedocumentary.org/index.php?option=com_contact&Itemid=3
38m; South Africa
Director: Rehad Desi
Synopsis: Coal miners in South Africa. What are the conditions of miners in South Africa from Zimbabwe? How do these miners explain AIDS and how do they try to cope with this devastating health care crisis? This film looks at the AIDS crisis from the lives of Zimbabwe miners who must work in South Africa to help their families. After leaving the mines with AIDS and returning home they must try to educate their wives and their families that their lives have forever changed.
61m; U.S.
Director: Kathleen Laughlin & Don Morstad
Synopsis: Mexican migrant workers in Minnesota
100m; Italy
Director: Vittorio De Sica
Synopsis: Urban poverty in Italy solved by a strange happy ending.
25m; France
Synopsis: This is one of the first documentaries ever made that show the lives of coal miners and their families. This film is a social documentary describing the fate of some 15,000 miners in the Borinage, who in 1932 staged a strike in protest against the announcement by Belgian mine-owners of a 5% cut in wages. The film is still extremely moving and portrays men who were often treated worse than animals.
103m; Italy
Director: Gianni Amelio
Cast: Sergio Castellitto, Tai Ling
Synopsis: Labourer Vincenzo travels from Italy to China in search of a machine with a deficiency that was produced in the now defunct establishment at which Vincenzo worked for years.
Contact: Cattleya Via della Frezza, 59 Roma00186 Italy Phn: +39-06-367201 Fax: +39 06 3672050 http://www.cattleya.it/ info@cattleya.it
48m; Israel-Palestine
Synopsis: European delegation investigates conditions of Palestinian workers
Contact: Website to Video 48: http://www.hanitzotz.com/video.htm
10m; France
Director: Franck Dion
Synopsis: Looking for efficiency and profit in his bomb factory, Mister Cok decides to replace his workers with sophisticated robots, but one worker is not discarded so easily.
Contact: rvdboom@papy3d.com Papy3d productions, 43 Bd Auguste Blanqui 75013 Paris, France
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