1h 13m
The film is a kaleidoscopic gaze on the exploitative working conditions experienced by migrant domestic workers hired under the Kafala system in Lebanon. Meagre wages, manipulation and a room without windows. Lebanon’s countless maids fight back against the mechanisms of modern slavery.
Director: Roser Corella
Category Archives: Immigrants/Immigration
Room Without A View (2021)
R.M.N. (2022)
Unrated; 2h 5m
Romanian New Wave auteur Cristian Mungiu (“4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days”) returns to masterful form with this drama, set in the filmmaker’s homeland and focusing on Matthias (Marin Grigore), a man who returns to his small village after walking off his slaughterhouse job in Germany, only to find the townspeople roiled by the presence of foreign workers. Ann Hornaday writes: “So much fear and misplaced anger are at play in Matthias’s increasingly hysterical behavior that ‘R.M.N.’ might as well be an X-ray of contemporary America.” (PG-13, 106 minutes.)
- Where to watch: Apple TV Plus, Prime Video
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Between Two Worlds (2021) (Ouistreham)
Based on French journalist Florence Aubenas’s bestselling non-fiction work Le Quai de Ouistreham, investigating rising precarity in French society through her experiences in the northern port city of Caen.
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A WOMAN CAPTURED (2017)
BERNADETT TUZA-RITTER, 2017 • HUNGARY
A WOMAN CAPTURED follows the life of a European woman who has been held by a Budapest family as a domestic slave for 10 years. She is one of over 45 million victims of modern day slavery today. Drawing courage from the filmmaker’s presence and the camera as witness, the woman captured attempts to escape the unbearable oppression and become a free person.
Ghost Fleet
Director Shannon Service, producer Jon Bowermaster.
GHOST FLEET investigates the hidden population of modern-day slaves who underpin industrial fishing, held captive at sea for years at a time.
From the Land of Gandhi
2019; 49min
Director: Prakash Wadhwa
prakash.wadhwa@gmail.com
A story of 4 high-skilled immigrants from India, a decade after they came to study in the United States, which places a human face to high-skilled immigration. The film also highlights the need for reforming America’s legal immigration at a time of intense globalization and retirement of the baby boomers.
Genres Documentary, Special Interest
Director Prakash Wadhwa
Starring Richard B. Freeman, Vivek Wadhwa, Jacob Kirkegaard
The Long Ride
The Long Ride is a timely new feature-length documentary about the historic 2003 Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride that sparked the new Civil Rights Movement for immigrant workers in the United States. Alarmed by increasing abuse of immigrants in the workplace, more than 900 immigrants and allies traveled across America to focus public attention on the plight of immigrant workers and to call for reform of the broken immigration system. They were inspired by the 1961 Civil Rights Movement Freedom Riders who risked their lives fighting to end segregation. The film chronicles their journey and the on-going fight for immigrant rights to this day. With Freedom Riders as our navigators, the film puts a human face on this controversial issue and examines the human costs as lawmakers consider overhaul of the U.S. immigration system.
Valerie Lapin Ganley
Producer/Director
Share Productions
Valerie@ShalomIreland.com
(650)455-3300
http://www.share.productions
http://www.thelongride.film
http://www.shalomireland.com
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