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CLIKA

2026; R; 1h 22m

A small town musician pushes to carve out a place for himself in the new wave of Mexican-American music after a clip of him performing one of his songs goes viral.

Director: Michael Greene
Writers: Michael Greene, Sean McBride, Ski-ter Jones
Stars: Jay Dee, Daniel ‘Doknow’ Lopez, Uziel Pantoja Delgado

 

ORWELL 2 +2=5

2025; R; 1h 59m

An investigation into the life, work, and enduring influence of the writer George Orwell, connecting his ideas to the contemporary world.

Director: Raoul Peck
Writer: Raoul Peck
Stars: Damian Lewis, George Orwell, U Win Khine

 

Rolling Papers (Pikad Paberid)

2024; 1h 38m
Director: Meel Paliale

Writers: Meel PalialeUrmet Piiling Stars: Mihkel Kuusk; Karl Birnbaum; Edgar Vunsh

A portrait of European youth as they navigate life in their twenties, grappling with uncertainty and searching for purpose.

 

Working Class Heroes (2022) Original title: Heroji radnicke klase

1h 25m
A group of illegal construction workers, left without money and basic rights, fight their bosses with all they have left, building a hoax “Potemkin’s village” to con a development fund. Close to deadline it’s a fight for life and death.

 

Haymarket: The Bomb, The Anarchists, The Labor Struggle (2021)

1h 25m

The Chicago Haymarket tragedy, where a bomb thrown into the ranks of Police was followed by an eruption of panic and violence resulting in a trial and execution of presumably innocent workers’ rights activists, is examined in this feature documentary film. Expert historians and professors present the history of the bomb, the anarchist movement of the 19th century, and the labor struggle of working people fighting for a shorter work day during the industrial might of America’s Gilded Age.

Adrian Prawica @ FILMADRIA

Director | Executive Producer | www.filmadria.com

773-724-0867 | 847-894-3849 – Direct

filmadria@gmail.com | IMDB Profile

HAYMARKET: The Bomb, The Anarchists, The Labor Struggle – Labor Goes To The Movies talks with director Adrian Prawica

 

About Some Meaningless Events (1974)

Not Rated; 1h 16m

In search of a subject for their film, a group of directors ask passers-by about their expectations of Moroccan cinema in the streets and bars of Casablanca.

A Suppressed Masterwork of Moroccan Political Cinema

 

Room Without A View (2021)

1h 13m
The film is a kaleidoscopic gaze on the exploitative working conditions experienced by migrant domestic workers hired under the Kafala system in Lebanon. Meagre wages, manipulation and a room without windows. Lebanon’s countless maids fight back against the mechanisms of modern slavery.

Director: Roser Corella

www.rosercorella.com

 

Local 1196: A Steelworkers Strike (2023)

59 minutes

“The old American dream just seems to be gone,” says Walt Hill, a longtime United Steelworkers Union member and the Contract Coordinator for Local 1196 in the decaying steel town of Brackenridge, Pennsylvania.
Local 1196 takes the viewer on the ground as days on strike turn to weeks, weeks turn to months, and union leaders realize they’re playing with a short stack, and against long odds.

Screen here and/or read more. Directed by Samuel George
Samuel.george@bfna.org

 

Unrest (2022) Original title: Unrueh

1h 33m

In late 19th century Switzerland, a factory worker becomes involved with a local group of anarchist watchmakers.


‘Unrest’ Review: The Times Are Not A-Changin’

 

Foreign Parts (2010)

  Not Rated

  1h 21m

‘Foreign Parts’ portrays a hidden enclave of automobile shops and junk-yards fated for demolition in the shadow of a new baseball stadium in Queens. The film observes this vibrant community of immigrants – where wrecks, refuse, and recycling form a thriving commerce – as it struggles for daily survival and contests New York City’s development scheme.

Directors Verena Paravel & J.P. Sniadecki