120m; Italy
Director: Giuliano Montaldo
Cast: Gian Maria Volonté, Riccardo Cucciolla and Cyril Cusack
Synopsis: The story of two anarchists who were charged and unfairly tried for murder when it was really for their political convictions.
Category Archives: Immigrants/Immigration
Turn Left at the End of the World (2004)
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
Legacy of Shame: Migrant Labor, An American Institution
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
The Liquid Fire (1962)
29m; U.S.
Director: Martin Hoade
Synopsis: This is an episode of the NBC religious program “The Eternal Light” and was produced by the Jewish Theological Seminary. It is a docu-drama presentation of the life of Samuel Gompers, a key founder and first head of the American Federation of Labor from the 1880s to the 1920s.
Contact: The film can be viewed here: http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc13671/m1/
Living Wage 101 (2005)
25m; U.S.
Director: Georgetown Solidarity Committee
Synopsis: Documentary chronicling the 5 year campaign of Georgetown campus workers and students to win a living wage for many campus workers, including the 2005 10-day hunger strike which won a historic living wage policy. Documentary is intended in part to help inspire and educate other students to organize similar campaigns on their campuses.
Contact: View the film here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQRaJvyDzo0
Long Distance Love (2009)
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.
Long Road Home (1991)
Synopsis: The struggles of California immigrant workers and labor agitators against their employers.
Los Bastardos (2008)
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.
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Los Mexicanos: The Struggle For Justice Of Patricia Perez
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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