Another contemporary take on a life story on early-‘Solidarity’ union hero; more about struggle for freedom than labour struggles
In 1984 Jerzy Popiełuszko, widely known as the “Solidarność-Priest” for his role in the resistance against communism, was murdered by agents of the Polish internal intelligence agency. This film debut attracted over 1,3 million cinema viewers in Poland.
http://www.filmfestivalcottbus.de/en/archive/2012/films/pgm_id=1296&film_id=970&seite=3
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Popieluszko – Freedom Is Within Us
Black Thursday (CZARNY CZWARTEK)
by Antoni Krauze (Poland) – contemporary take on the tragic events when Gdansk shipyard workers were killed by police during strike of December 1970 – got a FIPRESCI PRIZE (FIPRESCI Prize for a film in the World Competition) award at 37th Montreal World Film Festival.
Still a painfully remembered event, the brutally suppressed shipyard strikes of December 1970 get a stirring, street-level dramatization from Antoni Krauze that focuses on the tragic story of Brunon Drywa and family. When protests spread among coastal towns, troops in Gdynia responded by firing on people on their way to work; the victims would include Drywa, who was shot in the back. Filming on historic locations in Gdynia, Krauze forcefully brings to the screen a rarely depicted yet pivotal chapter in Polish history.
Women’s Day (Dzien Kobiet)
Halina is promoted to store manager of the supermarket chain „Motylek“ („Butterfly“). But her life as chief is just transient when she finds herself being abandoned by the system for being overly humane. Social-critical feature film debut by the famous Polish musician Maria Sadowska.’ The chains’ name ‘Butterfly’ is a paraphrase of an existing Portuguese-owned chain of discount supermarkets in Poland, which were infamous for the treatment of the workforce until unionised by NSZZ “Solidarność”
http://www.filmfestivalcottbus.de/en/archive/2012/films/pgm_id=1269&film_id=992&seite=3
Ann Kore Moun – Collective Action: A Force For Development
(André Vanasse & Jean-Nathan Aristil, 2012, 36 min) Unions in many sectors of Haitian society and their role in economic development.
http://www.productionsbonsai.com
Fixed: The Science/Fiction of Human Enhancement
(Regan Brashear, 2013, 60 min) A closer look at the drive to be “better than human” and the radical technological innovations that may take us there.
http://www.fixedthemovie.com
Dogtown Redemption
(Amir Soltani, 2014, film in post production) America’s untouchables who survive by recycling trash in Oakland, CA.
http://www.redemptiondoc.org/
We Women Warriors
(Nicole Karsin, 2012, 82 min)
122 tribes of indigenous people caught between revolutionary guerillas and Colombian armed forces are an endangered species.
http://wewomenwarriors.com
Where Soldiers Come From
(Heather Courtney, 2011) A documentary that chronicles four years in the lives of childhood friends as they enter a faraway war.
http://www.wheresoldierscomefrom.com
American Made Movie
(Nathaniel Thomas McGill & Vincent Vittorio, 2013, 82 min) The positive impact of domestic manufacturing jobs on national and local economies in the face of declining employment in this sector.
http://theamericanmademovie.com/
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