86m; Morocco
Director: Zakia Tahiri
Cast: Aziz Saâdallah, Nezha Rahile and Chantal Ladesou
Synopsis: A Moroccan comedy about a grumpy, cruel factory manager whose outlook on life changes when his wife slips him a potion that renders him sympathetic toward everyone he meets.
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7m; U.K.
Synopsis: Directed and produced by Mat Haywood and Lihee Avidan for Channel 4TV Two of four stories about migrant health care workers in England, the films show a brief look at how migrant workers contribute to the labour force in the NHS and the connection between working abroad and the life they have left behind. Produced with the assistance of Public Services International.
53m; Belguim
Director: Marie-France Collard
Synopsis: Women and labor.
93m;
Director: Heddy Honigman
Synopsis: Focuses on Peru’s capital city of Lima, revealing its startling contrasts of wealth and poverty, and how many of its poorest citizens have survived decades of economic crisis, terrorism and government violence, denial of workers’ rights, and political corruption.
Synopsis: List of films that relate to occupational hazards: http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/blog/nsb092310_movies.html
103m; U.S.S.R.
Director: Sergei M. Eisenstein
Cast: Boris Livanov, Vladimir Popov and Vasili Nikandrov
Synopsis (IMDB): In documentary style, events in Petrograd are re-enacted from the end of the monarchy in February of 1917 to the end of the provisional government and the decrees of peace and of land in November of that year. Lenin returns in April. In July, counter-revolutionaries put down a spontaneous revolt, and Lenin’s arrest is ordered. By late October, the Bolsheviks are ready to strike: ten days will shake the world. While the Mensheviks vacillate, an advance guard infiltrates the palace. Anatov-Oveyenko leads the attack and signs the proclamation dissolving the provisional government.
108m; U.S.
Director: Joe Johnston
Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Chris Cooper, Laura Dern, Chris Owen
Synopsis: This popular film is based on the true story of Homer Hickam, Jr., the introspective son of a West Virginia mine superintendent who nurtures his dream of sending rockets into outer space. Homer’s boyhood dreams become reality, changing his life and the lives of everyone living in Coalwood, McDowell County, in the late 1950’s. This fictionalized autobiography is based on the book Rocket Boys by Homer Hickam, Jr.
115m; U.S.
Director: Gary Sinise
Cast: John Malkovich, Gary Sinise and Ray Walston
Synopsis (IMDB): Based on John Steinbeck’s 1937 classic tale of two travelling companions, George and Lennie, who wander the country during the Depression, dreaming of a better life for themselves. Then, just as heaven is within their grasp, it is inevitably yanked away. The film follows Steinbeck’s novel closely, exploring questions of strength, weakness, usefulness, reality and utopia, bringing Steinbeck’s California vividly to life.
20m; U.S.
Director: Stanford Lewis
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