108m; U.K.
Director: Sidney J. Furie
Cast: Rita Tushingham, Colin Campbell and Dudley Sutton
Synopsis (IMDB): An immature teenager marries a young biker but becomes disenchanted with the realities of working class marriage and her husband’s relationship with his best friend.
45m; U.S.
Director: Joe Cultrera
Synopsis: Story of the rise and fall of an American factory town.
Contact: http://www.udel.edu/global/documentary/leftbehind/Site/Home.html
110m; France
Director: Avi Nesher
Cast: Neta Garty, Liraz Charhi and Aure Atika
Synopsis (IMDB): As a family from India moves in to a desert neighborhood in Southern Israel in the 1960’s, the family’s eldest, beautiful daughter discovers friendship and romance with the lovely local French girl. The film also explores the hardships and surprises that come with the integration of multiple families from different ethnic backgrounds (from the diaspora) and their struggle with immigration and prejudice
48m; U.S.
Synopsis: In this program—a follow-up to the alarming 1960 broadcast Harvest of Shame, which first awakened the nation to the plight of migrant workers—correspondents Dan Rather and Randall Pinkston document the ongoing exploitation of America’s invisible laborers while highlighting efforts being made to protect them. Topics of investigation include pesticide risks, the uneven enforcement of employment and immigration regulations, and peonage, as well as the efforts of rural legal services and progressive growers to advocate for this silent minority and provide equitable employment opportunities.
Contact: http://ffh.films.com/id/4522/Legacy_of_Shame_Migrant_Labor_an_American_Institution.htm
180m; France
Director: Olivier Assayas
Cast: Emmanuelle Béart, Charles Berling and Isabelle Huppert
Synopsis (IMDB): Responsibility versus happiness. Jean Barnery is a young Protestant cleric in Barbazac in 1900 when he divorces his severe wife after falling in love with Pauline, the independent-minded niece of an upper-crust parishioner. Jean’s also an heir to a high-end porcelain factory in Limoges. He gives his fortune to his wife to assuage his guilt over the divorce. He pursues Pauline; they marry and live idyllically in Switzerland. Then, duty calls: his family asks him to come to Limoges to run the business. He accepts, ignoring Pauline’s wishes. His new responsibilities, as well as his fighting in the Great War, change him and his relationship with Pauline
9m; Australia
Director: Adrian Francis
Synopsis: When the 9-to-5 shift ends and workers head home, Maia, an office cleaner, begins her workday. Adrian Francis accompanies her on her rounds as she ruminates on the solitary nature of her job, insisting that it is not a lonely one: She does not live with people themselves, but with the objects they have left behind.
110m; Austria
Director: Erwin Wagenhofer
Synopsis: “Follow the money” is a mantra in both crime and business, perhaps coincidentally and perhaps not. For director Erwin Wagenhofer, whose 2005 documentary sensation WE FEED THE WORLD traced the global path of food from raw materiel to table, it was perhaps inevitable that his follow-up would be the visual tone poem to commerce, LET’S MAKE MONEY. From Indian slums to Hong Kong boardrooms, the Spanish real estate bubble to the World Bank, Wagenhofer is there to juxtapose captains of industry-“there’s a famous saying that the best time to buy is when there’s blood on the streets,” says one-with those actual streets, where laborers work in primitive conditions and billboards offer goods and services they can’t possibly afford.
90m; U.K.
Director: Stephen Frears
Cast: Anthony Borrows, Ian Hart and Claire Hackett
Synopsis: Film follows a family and the effects of the Great Depression on the working class in 1930’s Liverpool.
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