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Long Distance Love (2009)

20 Apr

77m; Russia

Director: Magnus Gertten, Elin Jönsson

Synopsis: Kyrgyzstan today: Just married Alisher (18y) has to leave his pregnant wife Dildora (17y) to work in Russia, 3.500 km from home. He’s one of the 12-16 million Russian guest workers, who are forced to leave their countries and work, mostly illegally, under harsh conditions in low-paid jobs in order to support their families. After eight months of hardship in Moscow, Alisher decides to return to his young family, although he has failed to earn enough money to provide for them. This is a love story clouded by migration and modern slavery.

 
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Posted by on April 20, 2012 in Documentary, Immigrants/Immigration, Working Class

 

Long Road Home (1991)

20 Apr

Synopsis: The struggles of California immigrant workers and labor agitators against their employers.

 
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Posted by on April 20, 2012 in Documentary, Farm & Food, Immigrants/Immigration

 

The Long Voyage Home (1940)

20 Apr

Directed by John FordThe_Long_Voyage_Home
Features John Wayne, Thomas Mitchell, Ian Hunter, Barry Fitzgerald, Wilfrid Lawson,John Qualen, Mildred Natwick, Ward Bond

The film tells the story of the crew aboard an English cargo ship named the SS Glencairn,during World War II, on the long voyage home from the West Indies to Baltimore and then to England. The ship carries a cargo of high-explosives.

 
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Posted by on April 20, 2012 in Drama, Working Class

 

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The Long Walk Home (1990)

20 Apr

97m; U.S.

Director: Richard Pearce

Cast: Sissy Spacek, Whoopi Goldberg and Dwight Schultz

Synopsis (IMDB): Two women, black and white, in 1955 Montgomery Alabama, must decide what they are going to do in response to the famous bus boycott lead by Martin Luther King.

 
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Posted by on April 20, 2012 in Blacks, Drama, Organizing, Strikes-Strikebreaking-Lockouts

 

Look Back in Anger (1959)

20 Apr

98m; U.K.

Director: Tony Richardson

Cast: Richard Burton, Claire Bloom and Mary Ure

Synopsis (IMDB): A disillusioned, angry university graduate comes to terms with his grudge against middle-class life and values.

 

 
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Posted by on April 20, 2012 in Drama, Romance, Working Class

 

Looks and Smiles (1981)

20 Apr

104m; U.K.

Director: Ken Loach

Cast: Graham Green, Carolyn Nicholson and Tony Pitts

Synopsis: Thatcherism and the Irish troubles provide the backdrop for this study of Mick, a well-meaning youth in Sheffield, who has, unlike Dickens’ Pip, no expectations. Mick lives with his parents, works on his motorbike, looks for work, and every two weeks gets his check from the dole. There are no jobs. His best mate Alan joins the army to fix tanks and is sent to Belfast to quell Catholics. At a disco, Mick meets Karen, who works at a shoe shop and lives with her recently-separated mom. Karen misses her dad. She offers Mick emotional stability and a route to adulthood; Alan pitches the army. Does Mick have a future?

 
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Posted by on April 20, 2012 in Drama, Politics, Unemployment-Wages, War, Working Class

 

Los Bastardos (2008)

20 Apr

86m; Mexico

Director: Amat Escalante

Cast: Jesus Moises Rodriguez, Rubén Sosa and Nina Zavarin

Synopsis: Pulp crime and cinematic formalism collide in this hauntingly visceral portrait of two Mexican day laborers moved to desperate deeds in a hellish contemporary Los Angeles. Host University of Guadalajara Foundation.

Contact: Kino International Corp. 333 W. 39th St., Ste. 503 New York, NY 10018 Tel. (212) 629-6880 Tel. (800) 562-3330 Fax. (212) 714-0871 contact@kino.com

 
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Posted by on April 20, 2012 in Crime-Action, Immigrants/Immigration, Unemployment-Wages

 

Los Mexicanos: The Struggle For Justice Of Patricia Perez

20 Apr

Year: 2007
Director: Charles Latour
Producer: Charles Latour
Country: Canada
Time: 60 Minutes

Every year, some 4000 migrant foreign workers coming mostly from Mexico labour in Quebec farms to plant and pick vegetables in Canada. In the summer of 2006 Patricia Perez, a pro-union militant speaking for the UFCW, launches a major drive to organize the workers in several farms South of Montreal. She struggles to protect them by bringing them under a union that would give them the same rights as Canadian agricultural workers. This film is about the injustices of globalisation, not in the Third World, but in Canada.

 
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Posted by on April 20, 2012 in Documentary, Farm & Food, Global Economy, Immigrants/Immigration, Women

 

Los Olvidados (1950)

20 Apr

86m; Mexico

Director: Luis Buñuel

Cast: Alfonso Mejía, Roberto Cobo and Estela Inda

Synopsis: A group of juvenile delinquents live a violent and crime-filled life in the festering slums of Mexico City.

 
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Posted by on April 20, 2012 in Children, Crime-Action, Drama, Legal System, Working Class

 

Los Tabaqueros (2006)

20 Apr

8m; U.S.-Cuba

Director: Francisco Gonzalez, Russell Griffin

Synopsis: A passion for work, a pursuit of art, and the leaves of the tobacco plant combine to create pleasure and pride for these Cuban-American cigar makers.

Contact:  Found on the 2007 Palm Springs Film Festival: http://www.psfilmfest.org/festival/film/detail.aspx?id=19323&FID=31

 
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Posted by on April 20, 2012 in Arts/Culture, Documentary, Working Class

 
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