25m; U.S.
Synopsis (IMDB): Analyzes the forces which arose after World War I and wre at work in the 1920s. Describes the conflict between those who accepted the complexity of the twentieth century and tried to cope with it, and those who rejected the new and tried to live according to past values.
Contact: Project 7 Productions
119m; Brazil
Director: Eduardo Coutinho
Synopsis (IMDB): Eduardo Coutinho was filming a movie with the same name in the Northeast of Brazil, in 1964, when there came the military coup. He had to interrupt the project, and came back to it in 1981, looking for the same places and people, showing what had ocurred since then, and trying to gather a family whose patriarch, a political leader fighting for rights of country people, had been murdered.
In Twinning the Blue Water Bridge, the workers, contractors, engineers and dignitaries tell the story in their own words, sharing personal observations, emotions and experiences of constructing the second Blue Water Bridge. Spanning the St. Clair River between Port Huron, Michigan and Point Edward, Ontario, it was the first new international bridge built between Canada and the US in over 30 years.. This 55-minute documentary chronicles the entire construction process from its design and planning phase in 1994 through the dedication ceremonies in July 1997.
It concludes with one of the most dazzling fireworks displays ever seen: walls of fire cascading into the river and rockets shooting off the bridge almost endlessly into the night.
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131m; India
Director: Bimal Roy
Cast: Balraj Sahni, Nirupa Roy and Rattan Kumar
Synopsis: A small Bengali landowner and his young son are in danger when their two-acre farmland where they live is in danger of being taken over by a local zamindar (feudal lord) for failure to pay for mounting debits. They move to Calcutta where the father tries making a living as a rickshaw puller while his wife joins him but falls ill which threatens everything they have going to try to save their ancestral home.
Contact: Shemaroo Video Pvt. Ltd. (2003) (India) (DVD) Shemaroo House No. 18 Marol Co-operative-Industrial Estate Andheri East, Mumbai 400059 India Phn: +91 222 8529911
55m;
Director: Suhi Choi
Suhi Choi received a BA in Korean History from Korea University in Seoul, MFA in TV Production from Brooklyn College in New York. She is a doctoral student of Mass Media and Communication Program, Temple University in Philadelphia. Her documentary, Two Aliens, dealing with conflicts between Korean grocery owners and Mexican workers in New York City, was presented both in the Brooklyn Museum of Art and Anthology Film Archives in Manhattan.
108m; U.S.
Director: Raymond De Felitta
Cast: Michael Rispoli, Kelly Macdonald and Kathrine Narducci
Synopsis (IMDB): An unseen narrator looks back to 1956, on Staten Island, when Buddy, an Italian guy with big dreams, buys a house planning to live upstairs with his wife Estelle and run a bar downstairs. The first problem is Estelle’s lack of confidence in Buddy. Then, Irish tenants upstairs refuse to move and won’t pay rent; plus, the woman upstairs is about to have a baby. The next problem is the baby: once he’s born, it’s clear his father was Black. The Irish guy splits; Buddy evicts mother and child, then feels guilt and sets her up in a flat while she sorts out an adoption. Estelle’s lack of faith, the Irish lass’s spirit, Buddy’s dream, racial prejudice, and the baby’s fate play out.
100m; Brazil
Director: José Joffily
Cast: Guy Camilleri, Roberto Bomtempo and Theodoris Castellanos
Synopsis: Two Brailizans trade lack of opportunity in Brazil for illusion of the American Dream.
90m; France
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Cast: Joseph Gehrard, Marina Vlady and Anny Duperey
Synopsis: Prostitution becomes a metaphor for marriage and for working class; selling one’s body for food, shelter and consumer goods.
52m; U.S.
Director: Line Halvorsen
Synopsis: University Professor Sami Al-Arian targeted by US after 9/11
67m; U.S.
Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Vivienne Osborne and Guy Kibbee
Synopsis (IMDB): Allen claims he his being executed for the wrong murder. Flashbacks show him working with Clark as a riveter. When he makes a killing on the horses he meets Shirley and gets married. When Clark tells him Shirley is unfaithful they fight and Clark falls to his death. Later he finds that Clark was telling the truth.
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