143m; Japan
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Synopsis: Kanji Watanabe is a longtime bureaucrat in a city office who, along with the rest of the office, spends his entire working life doing nothing. He finds that he has a terminal cancer and decides to intensively live his last months of life.
Synopsis: Mexico City transit workers commandeer a streetcar and expose the contradictions of capitalism. Spanish with English subtitles.
96m; U.S.
Director: Esau Melendez
Synopsis: Using the resistance of illegal immigrant Elvira Arellano, the film documents the rise of the pro-immigrant movement in Chicago.
50m; U.S.
Director: Susan Legere
Synopsis: Tales of immigration and upward mobility from three Boston College service workers.
Contact: Susan Legere legeres@bc.edu
76m; U.S.
Director: Georg Koszulinski
Synopsis: Immokalee U.S.A. examines the lives of the individuals who make up the small migrant farming community of Immokalee, Florida.
Contact: koszulinski@gmail.com 352-491-2960 (Cell)
135m;
Director: Ulrich Seidl
Cast: Ekateryna Rak, Paul Hofmann, Michael Thomas, Maria Hofstätter, Georg Friedrich, Natalija Baranova, Natalia Epureanu, Petra Morzé, Dirk Stermann, Erich Finsches
Synopsis: This dark comedy is about the crossing stories of a Ukrainian nurse (import) and a maladjusted Viennese security man (export).
Contact: (http://importexport.ulrichseidl.com/en/) Sarah Wilby 45a rathbone Street London W1T 1NW, GB, T +44 20 7580 0222 F +44 20 7580 0333 sarahwilby@mac.com
109m; U.S.
Director: Paul Weitz
Cast: Dennis Quaid, Topher Grace and Scarlett Johansson
Synopsis: A middle-aged ad exec is faced with a new boss who’s nearly half his age… and who also happens to be sleeping with his daughter.
32m;
Director: Aunshuman Apte
Contact: 618-203-4589; aunshuman@gmail.com
Synopsis: “The documentary focuses on the hardships that upcoming actors face to get entry into Bollywood, India’s Mumbai based film industry.”
Website: http://sites.google.com/site/aunshuman/home/productions-1/other-work
84m; Mexico
Director Juan Carlos Rulfo
Synopsis: Absorbing documentary about work and the transformation of men into laborers through story of construction crew.
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