82m; France
Director: Agnès Varda
Cast: François Wertheimer, Agnès Varda and Bodan Litnanski
Synopsis (IMDB): An intimate, picaresque inquiry into French life as lived by the country’s poor and its provident, as well as by the film’s own director, Agnes Varda. The aesthetic, political and moral point of departure for Varda are gleaners, those individuals who pick at already-reaped fields for the odd potato, the leftover turnip.
89m; Australia
Director: Lezli-An Barrett
Synopsis (IMDB): After seeing her husband fail in fighting a battle to keep his factory open, a manageress loses her job in a disagreement with the manager over sexual harassment of her staff. She accepts the advice of her father and joins his son, a left-wing organizer, and takes her plight to the union.
Synopsis: “a tribute to working class people/culture and focuses on the lives of five generation miners and their families who have lived and worked in Butte over the past 125 years”
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78m; U.S.
Director: Michael Curitz
Cast: Richard Barthelmess, Bette Davis and Dorothy Jordan
Synopsis (IMDB): A tenant farmer’s son is caught in the middle of owner-tenant disputes when he falls for the plantation owner’s seductive daughter.
16m; India
Director: Andre Hörmann
Synopsis: Inside an Indian call center.
21m; Canada
Director: Canadian Auto Workers
Synopsis: Documentary about sexual harassment on the job and the women who are affected by it. Video shows how the issue, if not dealt with, can weaken or destroy a local union by dividing men and women on issues.
Chile
Director: Tom Cohen and Richard Pearce
Synopsis: Depicts unalienated labor of slum dwellers who rebuild their own village in Allende’s Chile.
127m; U.S.
Director: Michael Moore
Synopsis: On the 20-year anniversary of his groundbreaking masterpiece “Roger & Me,” Michael Moore’s “Capitalism: A Love Story” comes home to the issue he’s been examining throughout his career: the disastrous impact of corporate dominance on the everyday lives of Americans. But this time the culprit is much bigger than General Motors, and the crime scene is far wider than Flint, Michigan.
80m
Director: Frank Beyer
Synopsis (First Run Features): A hilarious and rare classic of German cinema, CARBIDE AND SORREL is a road trip adventure set in the last days of World War II. In a brilliant performance, Erwin Geschonneck plays Kalle, a non-smoking cigarette factory worker who – dogged by every possible mishap – must travel hundreds of miles without a truck to get a load of carbide back to Dresden, where his chain-smoking co-workers can use them to weld their ruined factory back together.
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