Director: Ellie Walton
Synopsis: Documentary about hispanic day workers in DC.
Category Archives: Themes
Ikiru (1952)
143m; Japan
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Synopsis: Kanji Watanabe is a longtime bureaucrat in a city office who, along with the rest of the office, spends his entire working life doing nothing. He finds that he has a terminal cancer and decides to intensively live his last months of life.
Illusion Travels by Streetcar (1953)
Synopsis: Mexico City transit workers commandeer a streetcar and expose the contradictions of capitalism. Spanish with English subtitles.
Immigrant Nation (2010)
96m; U.S.
Director: Esau Melendez
Synopsis: Using the resistance of illegal immigrant Elvira Arellano, the film documents the rise of the pro-immigrant movement in Chicago.
Immigrant Reflections: Three Boston College Service Workers Share Their Stories (2008)
50m; U.S.
Director: Susan Legere
Synopsis: Tales of immigration and upward mobility from three Boston College service workers.
Contact: Susan Legere legeres@bc.edu
Immokalee U.S.A. (2008)
76m; U.S.
Director: Georg Koszulinski
Synopsis: Immokalee U.S.A. examines the lives of the individuals who make up the small migrant farming community of Immokalee, Florida.
Contact: koszulinski@gmail.com 352-491-2960 (Cell)
Import Export (2007)
135m;
Director: Ulrich Seidl
Cast: Ekateryna Rak, Paul Hofmann, Michael Thomas, Maria Hofstätter, Georg Friedrich, Natalija Baranova, Natalia Epureanu, Petra Morzé, Dirk Stermann, Erich Finsches
Synopsis: This dark comedy is about the crossing stories of a Ukrainian nurse (import) and a maladjusted Viennese security man (export).
Contact: (http://importexport.ulrichseidl.com/en/) Sarah Wilby 45a rathbone Street London W1T 1NW, GB, T +44 20 7580 0222 F +44 20 7580 0333 sarahwilby@mac.com
In The Pit (2006)
84m; Mexico
Director Juan Carlos Rulfo
Synopsis: Absorbing documentary about work and the transformation of men into laborers through story of construction crew.
In This World (2002)
88m; U.K
Director: Michael Winterbottom
Cast: Jamal Udin Torabi, Enayatullah and Imran Paracha
Synopsis: In February 2002 in the Shamshatoo Refugee Camp in the North West Frontier Province in Pakistan, there are 53,000 refugees living in sub-human conditions since 1979 with the Soviet Union invasion and 2001 with the USA bombing and invasion of Afghanistan. The family of the Afghan Enayat and his cousin Jamal decides to send them illegally to London to have a better life. They hire coyotes to smuggle the cousins through Iran and Turkey to Italy and finally London hidden inside trucks and containers. However, the long journey locked in a container with other families separates the cousins and on 09 August 2002, Jamal has his asylum application refused in London.
In the Beginning / A l’origine (2009)
155m; France
Director: Xavier Giannoli
Synopsis: France, present day. A professional conman passes himself off as the boss of a construction site building a highway extension. He cons the whole region, hires dozens of workers and cynically enjoys the profits of his scam until he meets the lady mayor of a small village that the road will go through. She intrigues and unsettles him, before revealing to him a world he never knew: feelings. How far will he go now to save his victims and save himself from his own lies?
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