22m; South Korea
Director: Musgtaque Ahmed
Synopsis: Struggle of Bangladeshi and Nepali workers in South Korea and the effects of the government crackdown on these immigrant workers.
Category Archives: Immigrants/Immigration
Dirt (2003)
91m; U.S.
Director: Nancy Savoca
Cast: Julieta Ortiz, Deborah Hedwall and John Tormey
Synopsis (IMDB): Dolores is an illegal immigrant from El Salvador who works as a housemaid in New York City. Under the constant fear of likely deportation, she wonders whether she should return to her country. Her decision to leave is strengthened when her life is suddenly complicated by a series of unfortunate events.
Dirty Pretty Things (2003)
97m; U.K.
Director: Steven Frears
Cast: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Audrey Tautou and Sophie Okonedo
Synopsis: An illegal Nigerian immigrant discovers the unpalatable side of London life.
Distant Lives (2003)
105m; Germany
Director: Hans-Christian Schmid
Cast: Andrzej Górak, Anna Yanovskaya and Sergey Frolov
Synopsis (IMDB): This movie reflects on the situation around the border between Poland and Germany. The fate of many single characters creates a picture of life in this region: Some Russians want to cross the border illegal to get into Germany, a company wants to build a new factory, a Polish taxi driver desperately needs money to buy his daughter a communion dress, and so on
Do They Catch Children Too? (2003)
49m; Israel
Director: Hedva Galili-Smolinsky
Synopsis: Immigrant workers’ children in Israel.
Do U Cry 4 Me Argentina? (2005)
Director: Be youn Suk
Synopsis: Illegal Korean immigrants working in Argentina.
Dois Perdidos Numa Noite Suja (2003)
Director: Jose Joffily
Synopsis: Illegal Brazilian immigrants in New York City
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Dollar A Day, 10 Cents a Dance (1984)
30m; U.S.
Director: Geoffrey Dunn
Synopsis: Filipino immigrant farmworkers in the Pajardo (CA) Valley.
El Contrato (2006)
51m; Canada
Director: Min Sook Lee
Synopsis: El Contrato (The Contract) follows Teodoro Bello Martinez, a father of four living in Central Mexico, and several of his countrymen as they make an annual migration to southern Ontario. For eight months of the year the town’s population absorbs 4000 migrant labourers who pick tomatoes for conditions and wages no local will accept. Under a well-meaning government program that allows growers to monitor themselves, the opportunity to exploit workers is as ripe as the fruit they pick. Only men with families to support and no more than an elementary school education need apply. Grievances – among them abusive bosses, unhealthy conditions and paying for benefits they don’t receive – are deflected by a long line of others “back home” who are willing to take their place. Despite a fear of repercussions, the workers voice their desire for dignity and respect, as much as for better working conditions. El Contrato ends as winter closes in and the Mexicans return home. Back in the embrace of their families some pledge, not for the first time and possibly not the last, that it’s their final season in the north. DVD of 2003 original.
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