16m; India
Director: Andre Hörmann
Synopsis: Inside an Indian call center.
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Calixto, The Landlord (No Hay Tierra Sin Dueño) [2003]
107m; Honduras
Director: Sami Kafati
Cast: José Luis López, Saul Toro and Daniel Vasquez
Synopsis (IMDB): The film tells the story of a ruthless landowner who commandeers property (both land and other men’s wives) and leaves a path of human suffering and death in his wake. The film describes an intersecting universe of entrenched power–in which the landowning class, colluding priests, corrupt government officials, violent police, and U.S. businessmen–conspiring to rape the land for their own profit and to suppress the local farmers. In contrast, the working peasants cherish the land as their own and struggle to break free from oppression to build homes and better lives for their families
Call Me Sister, Call Me Brother (1988)
21m; Canada
Director: Canadian Auto Workers
Synopsis: Documentary about sexual harassment on the job and the women who are affected by it. Video shows how the issue, if not dealt with, can weaken or destroy a local union by dividing men and women on issues.
Cama Adrento (2004)
83m; Argentina
Director: Jorge Gaggero
Synopsis: A wealthy woman and her live-in housekeeper must adjust their entrenched routines and relationship when Buenos Aires is plunged into an economic crisis.
Camera Buff (1979) (aka Amator)
Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski
117M
Writers: Krzysztof Kieslowski (dialogue), Jerzy Stuhr(dialogue)
Stars: Jerzy Stuhr, Malgorzata Zabkowska and Ewa Pokas
Camera Buff (Polish: Amator, meaning “amateur”) is a 1979 Polish film written and directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski and starring Jerzy Stuhr. The film is about a humble factory worker whose newfound hobby, amateur film, becomes an obsession, and transforms his modest and formerly contented life.[1] Camera Buff won the Polish Film Festival Golden Lion Award and the Moscow International Film Festival FIPRESCI Prize and Golden Prize in 1979, and the Berlin International Film Festival Otto Dibelius Film Award in 1980. (Wikipedia)
Campamento (1972)
Chile
Director: Tom Cohen and Richard Pearce
Synopsis: Depicts unalienated labor of slum dwellers who rebuild their own village in Allende’s Chile.
Can’t Do It In Europe (2006)
46m
Director: Charlotta Copcutt, Anna Weitz & Anna Klara Åhrén
Synopsis: CAN’T DO IT IN EUROPE portrays this new phenomenon of ‘reality tourism,’ whereby bored American or European travelers seek out real-life experiences as exciting tourist “adventures.” The film follows a group of such international tourists as they visit the mines in Potosi—the poorest city in the poorest nation in Latin America—where Bolivian miners work by hand, just as they did centuries ago, to extract silver from the earth.
Contact: http://icarusfilms.com/new2006/cant.html
Canada’s Sweetheart: The Saga of Hal C. Banks (1985)
114m
Director: Donald Brittain
Synopsis (NFB): Harold Chamberlain Banks, a convicted felon and union strongarm, was recruited in 1949 to break up the communist-controlled unions that were blocking the country’s shipping industry and to replace them with a Canadian chapter of the Seafarers’ International Union (SIU). This gripping docudrama, based on eyewitness accounts and courtroom testimony, recalls thirteen turbulent years of violence and corruption during which the careers of 6 000 seamen were destroyed by the power of one man, Banks. Canada’s Sweetheart recounts the events leading up to 1962, when a small group summoned the courage to stand up to Banks and his organization. This challenge resulted in the government-appointed Norris Commission hearings–a landmark in Canadian labor history.
Wesbite: http://www.onf-nfb.gc.ca/eng/collection/film/?id=16132
Capitalism Hits The Fan; Richard Wolff on the Economic Meltdown (2008)
57m; U.S.
Director:
Synopsis: Renowned University of Massachusetts Economics Professor Richard Wolff breaks down the root causes of today’s economic crisis, showing how it was decades in the making and in fact reflects seismic failures within the structures of American-style capitalism itself.
Contact: http://www.capitalismhitsthefan.com/
Capitalism: A Love Story (2009)
127m; U.S.
Director: Michael Moore
Synopsis: On the 20-year anniversary of his groundbreaking masterpiece “Roger & Me,” Michael Moore’s “Capitalism: A Love Story” comes home to the issue he’s been examining throughout his career: the disastrous impact of corporate dominance on the everyday lives of Americans. But this time the culprit is much bigger than General Motors, and the crime scene is far wider than Flint, Michigan.
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