61m; U.S.
Director: Kathleen Laughlin & Don Morstad
Synopsis: Mexican migrant workers in Minnesota
Category Archives: Genre
Miracle in Milan (1951)
100m; Italy
Director: Vittorio De Sica
Synopsis: Urban poverty in Italy solved by a strange happy ending.
The Missing Star (La Stella che non c’è) [2006]
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
The Mission
48m; Israel-Palestine
Synopsis: European delegation investigates conditions of Palestinian workers
Contact: Website to Video 48: http://www.hanitzotz.com/video.htm
Misery in the Borinage (MISÈRE AU BORINAGE) [1933]
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.
Mississippi Chicken (2007)
82m; U.S.
Director: John Fiege
Synopsis: Questions of race, workers’ rights and exploitation form the crux of this intriguing documentary about Latin American immigrants living in rural Mississippi, where poultry plants promise jobs but little else.
Contact: http://www.mississippichicken.com/contact.asp
Mitumba: The Second Hand Road (2005)
53m; Italy
Director: Rafaelle Brunetti
Contact: The story of a t-shirt and its journey from the north to the south of the world, told by the people involved in the second-hand clothes trade.
Modern Heroes, Modern Slaves
Synopsis: Each day, thousands of women leave underdeveloped countries to seek work as domestics in more prosperous places. This film shows the human and sometimes tragic side of their stories.
Moi et mon Blanc (2003)
90m; Burkina Faso/France
Director: S. Pierre Yameogo
Cast: Serge Bayala, Pierre-Loup Rajot and Anne Roussel
Synopsis (IMDB): Mamadi is struggling to complete a doctorate at a Parisian university after the government of his country has stopped paying his scholarship. Thanks to his acquaintances in the African community, he finds a job as night watchman in an underground car park. There, a French colleague, Franck, helps the friendly African academic getting around. However, the car park is also a meeting point for dubious characters, and when Mamadi accidentally wrecks a drug trafficking operation, Franck is really hard-pressed to put his pal and himself out of harm’s way. Wouldn’t Mamadi’s home country be the ideal place to escape the gangsters’ wrath
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