143m; Japan
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Synopsis: Kanji Watanabe is a longtime bureaucrat in a city office who, along with the rest of the office, spends his entire working life doing nothing. He finds that he has a terminal cancer and decides to intensively live his last months of life.
Synopsis: Mexico City transit workers commandeer a streetcar and expose the contradictions of capitalism. Spanish with English subtitles.
50m; U.S.
Director: Susan Legere
Synopsis: Tales of immigration and upward mobility from three Boston College service workers.
Contact: Susan Legere legeres@bc.edu
76m; U.S.
Director: Georg Koszulinski
Synopsis: Immokalee U.S.A. examines the lives of the individuals who make up the small migrant farming community of Immokalee, Florida.
Contact: koszulinski@gmail.com 352-491-2960 (Cell)
109m; U.S.
Director: Paul Weitz
Cast: Dennis Quaid, Topher Grace and Scarlett Johansson
Synopsis: A middle-aged ad exec is faced with a new boss who’s nearly half his age… and who also happens to be sleeping with his daughter.
32m;
Director: Aunshuman Apte
Contact: 618-203-4589; aunshuman@gmail.com
Synopsis: “The documentary focuses on the hardships that upcoming actors face to get entry into Bollywood, India’s Mumbai based film industry.”
Website: http://sites.google.com/site/aunshuman/home/productions-1/other-work
84m; Mexico
Director Juan Carlos Rulfo
Synopsis: Absorbing documentary about work and the transformation of men into laborers through story of construction crew.
Director: Cheryl Hess/Melissa Thompson
Synopsis: Restaurant/service workers.
Contact: mthom@astro.ocis.temple.edu
52m; U.S.
Synopsis: A picture of the mind-numbing clerical work at Georgia Life, an Atlanta insurance company.
155m; France
Director: Xavier Giannoli
Synopsis: France, present day. A professional conman passes himself off as the boss of a construction site building a highway extension. He cons the whole region, hires dozens of workers and cynically enjoys the profits of his scam until he meets the lady mayor of a small village that the road will go through. She intrigues and unsettles him, before revealing to him a world he never knew: feelings. How far will he go now to save his victims and save himself from his own lies?
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