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Long Distance Love (2009)

20 Apr

77m; Russia

Director: Magnus Gertten, Elin Jönsson

Synopsis: Kyrgyzstan today: Just married Alisher (18y) has to leave his pregnant wife Dildora (17y) to work in Russia, 3.500 km from home. He’s one of the 12-16 million Russian guest workers, who are forced to leave their countries and work, mostly illegally, under harsh conditions in low-paid jobs in order to support their families. After eight months of hardship in Moscow, Alisher decides to return to his young family, although he has failed to earn enough money to provide for them. This is a love story clouded by migration and modern slavery.

 
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Posted by on April 20, 2012 in Documentary, Immigrants/Immigration, Working Class

 

Long Road Home (1991)

20 Apr

Synopsis: The struggles of California immigrant workers and labor agitators against their employers.

 
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Posted by on April 20, 2012 in Documentary, Farm & Food, Immigrants/Immigration

 

Los Mexicanos: The Struggle For Justice Of Patricia Perez

20 Apr

Year: 2007
Director: Charles Latour
Producer: Charles Latour
Country: Canada
Time: 60 Minutes

Every year, some 4000 migrant foreign workers coming mostly from Mexico labour in Quebec farms to plant and pick vegetables in Canada. In the summer of 2006 Patricia Perez, a pro-union militant speaking for the UFCW, launches a major drive to organize the workers in several farms South of Montreal. She struggles to protect them by bringing them under a union that would give them the same rights as Canadian agricultural workers. This film is about the injustices of globalisation, not in the Third World, but in Canada.

 
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Posted by on April 20, 2012 in Documentary, Farm & Food, Global Economy, Immigrants/Immigration, Women

 

Los Tabaqueros (2006)

20 Apr

8m; U.S.-Cuba

Director: Francisco Gonzalez, Russell Griffin

Synopsis: A passion for work, a pursuit of art, and the leaves of the tobacco plant combine to create pleasure and pride for these Cuban-American cigar makers.

Contact:  Found on the 2007 Palm Springs Film Festival: http://www.psfilmfest.org/festival/film/detail.aspx?id=19323&FID=31

 
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Posted by on April 20, 2012 in Arts/Culture, Documentary, Working Class

 

Los Trabajadores / The Workers (2001)

20 Apr

48m; U.S.

Director: Heather Courtney

Synopsis: Immigrant workers.

Contact: Women Make Movies 212-925-0606 Director: 512-371-1337; hcourtney85@hotmail.com

 
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Posted by on April 20, 2012 in Documentary, Immigrants/Immigration, Working Class

 

Losers And Winners (2006)

20 Apr

96m; Germany

Director: Michael Loeken, Ulrike Franke

Synopsis: German efficiency and Chinese industriousness pass each other on globalization’s economic ladder.

Contact: Hans-Peter Metzler Submission Contact buero.metzler@t-online.de +49 (0)7542 951270 (Work)

 
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Posted by on April 20, 2012 in Documentary, Global Economy, Industrial/Mine/Manufacturing

 

Lost Boys of Sudan (2003)

20 Apr

87m; U.S.

Director: Megan Mylan, Jon Shenk

Cast: Santino Majok Chuor and Peter Kon Dut

Synopsis: Lost Boys of Sudan is a feature-length documentary that follows two Sudanese refugees on an extraordinary journey from Africa to America. Orphaned as young boys in one of Africa’s cruelest civil wars, Peter Dut and Santino Chuor survived lion attacks and militia gunfire to reach a refugee camp in Kenya along with thousands of other children. From there, remarkably, they were chosen to come to America. Safe at last from physical danger and hunger, a world away from home, they find themselves confronted with the abundance and alienation of contemporary American suburbia

 
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Posted by on April 20, 2012 in Documentary, Immigrants/Immigration, War

 

Lost Eden (unreleased)

20 Apr

Director: Elsa Rassbach

Story of the women in the textile mills of Massachusetts in the 1840s; completed but has never aired?

http://www.commondreams.org/elsa–rassbach

 
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Posted by on April 20, 2012 in Documentary, Industrial/Mine/Manufacturing, Textile Industry, Women

 

Love and Diane (2002)

20 Apr

155m;

Director: Jennifer Dworkin

Cast: Diane Hazzard, Donyaeh Hazzard and Love Hazzard

Synopsis (IMDB): Documentary on a recovering crack addict and her troubled daughter as they navigate the obstacles of joblessness, parenthood, welfare, and public housing.

 
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Posted by on April 20, 2012 in Documentary, Unemployment-Wages, Women, Working Class

 

Maids and Bosses (Empleadas y Patrones) [2010]

20 Apr

64m; 

Director: Abner Benaim

Synopsis: A revealing look into the lives of wealthy Panamanians and those they employ, this visually creative documentary explores the class divide in Latin America from both sides. Disheartened maids tell harsh stories of devilish children, ridiculously long hours and unfounded accusations of theft. Snobbish bosses complain about incorrect formal table settings, maids taking maternity leave and even the use of black magic. However, both sides attest that genuine affection can grow after working closely for so many years. Official Selection, 2011 HotDocs Film Festival.

 
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Posted by on April 20, 2012 in Documentary, Service Workers, Women, Working Class

 
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