75m; Argentina
Director: Adrián Caetano
Synopsis: A Bolivian immigrant working illegally as a cook in a small restaurant in Buenos Aires suffers abuse and discrimination from its customers.
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Border Incident (1949)
94m; U.S.
Director: Anthony Mann
Cast: Ricardo Montalban, George Murphy and Howard Da Silva
Synopsis: Mexican and American federal agents tackle a vicious gang exploiting illegal farm workers in southern California.
Bordertown (2006)
112m; U.S.
Director: Gregory Nava
Cast: Jennifer Lopez, Antonio Banderas, Maya Zapata, Martin Sheen
Synopsis: A journalist investigates a series of murders near American-owned factories on the border of Juarez and El Paso.
Born in East L.A. (1987)
85m; U.S.
Director: Cheech Marin
Cast: Cheech Marin, Daniel Stern and Paul Rodriguez
Synopsis (IMDB): Rudy is an American of Mexican descent who is caught up in an immigration raid on a factory. Deported to Mexico as an illegal immigrant, he has no way of proving that he is in fact an American citizen, and is forced to rely on his cunning to sneak his way back home.
Bound By Promises: Contemporary Slavery in Rural Brazil (2006)
17m; Brazil
Director: Christine Umali
Synopsis: Story of men who set out in search of work and are taken to isolated ranches in Brazil, only to find that they have been lured into debt bondage.
Contact: christine@witness.org 718 783 2000 x.342 (Work)
Bracero Stories (2008)
56m; U.S.
Director: Patrick J. Mullins
Synopsis: Personal experiences of five former “guest workers” in the controversial U.S.- Mexican government Bracero Program.
Contact: pmullins@utep.edu 915 747-7690 (Work) 915 539-5156 (Home)
Black Girl (La Noire de…) (1965)
60M; Senegal
Director: Ousmane Sembene
Cast: Mbissine Thérèse Diop, Anne-Marie Jelinek and Robert Fontaine
Synopsis (IMDB): A Senegalese woman is eager to find a better life abroad. She takes a job as a governess for a French family, but finds her duties reduced to those of a maid after the family moves from Dakar to the south of France. In her new country, the woman is constantly made aware of her race and mistreated by her employers. Her hope for better times turns to disillusionment and she falls into isolation and despair. The harsh treatment leads her to consider suicide the only way out.
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Bread and Roses (2000)
110m; U.S.
Director: Ken Loach
Cast: Pilar Padilla, Adrien Brody and Elpidia Carrillo
Synopsis (IMDB): Maya is a quick-witted young woman who comes over the Mexican border without papers and makes her way to the LA home of her older sister Rosa. Rosa gets Maya a job as a janitor: a non-union janitorial service has the contract, the foul-mouthed supervisor can fire workers on a whim, and the service-workers’ union has assigned organizer Sam Shapiro to bring its “justice for janitors” campaign to the building. Sam finds Maya a willing listener, she’s also attracted to him. Rosa resists, she has an ailing husband to consider. The workers try for public support; management intimidates workers to divide and conquer. Rosa and Maya as well as workers and management may be set to collide.
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9 Star Hotel (2006)
78m; Israel
Director: Ido Haar
Palestinian men build luxury condominiums by day, and hide in makeshift tents to avoid the authorities at night
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