103m; U.S.
Director: Norman Jewison
Cast: Danny DeVito, Gregory Peck and Penelope Ann Miller
Synopsis: A corporate raider threatens a hostile take-over of a “mom and pop” company. The patriarch of the company enlists the help of his wife’s daughter, who is a lawyer, to try and protect the company. The raider is enamoured of her, and enjoys the thrust and parry of legal manoeuvring as he tries to win her heart.
83m; Argentina
Director: Ariel Rotter
Cast: Julio Chávez, Osvaldo Bonet, Maria Oneto, Inés Molina, Arturo Goetz, María Ucedo
Synopsis: The businessman Juan adopts the identity of a dead fellow traveller to give himself a timeout in his organised and responsible existence. Things work out different however when he doesn’t turn into the other man as much as becoming himself more than ever.
Contact: Aquafilms (http://www.aquafilms.com.ar/ingles/films_elotro_ing.html) Aquafilms, Cabello 3644 C1425APN Buenos Aires, Argentina; tel: +54 (11) 4802-4218; tel/ fax: +54 (11) 4809-3698; email: produccion@aquafilms.com.ar
80m; U.S.
Director: King Vidor
Cast: Karen Morley, Tom Keene and Barbara Pepper
Synopsis (IMDB): John and Mary sims are city-dwellers hit hard by the financial fist of The Depression. Driven by bravery (and sheer desperation) they flee to the country and, with the help of other workers, set up a farming community – a socialist mini-society based upon the teachings of Edward Gallafent. The newborn community suffers many hardships – drought, vicious raccoons and the long arm of the law – but ultimately pull together to reach a bread-based Utopia.
92m; Germany/Austria
Director: Nikolaus Geyrhalter
Synopsis: Effects of industrial food production and high-tech farming
Contact: http://www.ourdailybread.at/jart/projects/utb/website.jart?rel=en&content-id=1130864824947 Distribution for USA, Canada First Run / Icarus Films Gary Crowdus 32 Court Street, 21st Floor USA-Brooklyn NY 11201 t +1-718-488 8900 f +1-718-488 8642 gary@frif.com http://www.frif.com
12m; U.S.
Director: Jano Oscherwitz
Synopsis: The struggle of Native American healthcare workers to organize and the issues that they face.
Contact: Jano.oscherwitz@seiu1021.org
57m; U.S.
Director: Kudzu Productions
Synopsis (Baldwin and Associates): A historical production telling the story of the first interracial movements in America, the Southern Tenant Farmers Union.
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