As a boy, Noe watched his family struggle and decided to help. Noe told Alex Fernandez, his high Crisanto Street. In the shadow of Silicon Valley, a hidden community thrives despite difficult circumstances. For one resident, eight-year-old Geovany Cesario, impending change is bittersweet. Through the deeply personal truths of three local residents, Edgecombe examines the ways trauma repeats and reinvents itself in rural black communities.
Clash is a short experimental documentary critiquing the lack of diversity in on-screen representation in the U. Agents of Change. Agents of Change examines the racial conditions on college campuses across the U. Many of the The Invisible Patients. Through the story of Jessica Macleod, Ph. Beyond the Wall.
Too often, prisoner reentry becomes a setup for Random Acts of Legacy. Filmmaker Ali Kazimi finds a rare cache of deteriorating 16mm home movies spanning from to , and deftly crafts a story of history and memory in Random Acts of Legacy. The family archive that Kazimi discovers was the work Personal Statement. Personal Statement follows three Brooklyn high school seniors intent on defying the odds for themselves and their classmates: getting their peers into college.
Becoming the very resource they don't have for themselves as peer college counselors, the students star in Whiteness Project. Interactive Whiteness Project is an interactive investigation into how Americans who identify as white, or partially white, understand and experience their race.
Whiteness Project conducts interviews with people from all walks of life and localities in which they are asked about Although they came in pursuit of short-term Big Men. Over five years, director Rachel Boynton and her cinematographer film the quest for oil in Ghana by Dallas-based Kosmos. The company develops the country's first commercial oil field, yet its success is quickly compromised by political intrigue and accusations Fallen City.
In today's go-go China, an old city completely destroyed by a devastating earthquake can be rebuilt — boasting new and improved civic amenities — in an astoundingly quick two years.
But, as Fallen City reveals, the journey from the American Revolutionary. Grace Lee Boggs, 98, is a Chinese American philosopher, writer, and activist in Detroit with a thick FBI file and a surprising vision of what an American revolution can be. Rooted for 75 years in the labor, civil rights and Last Train Home.
Last Train Home takes viewers on a heart-stopping journey with POV Shorts POV presents a one-hour collection of acclaimed documentary shorts by established and emerging filmmakers.
Farewell Ferris Wheel. Carnivals have a delightful place in the American imagination. But rising expenses and changes in U. Farewell Ferris Wheel is an inside look at the struggles of an industry trying The Hand That Feeds. At a popular bakery cafe in Manhattan, patrons get served with a smile 24 hours a day. Behind the scenes, some of the undocumented immigrant workers earn far below the minimum wage. Filmed at the onset of the service economy Charlie vs Goliath. Former Catholic priest Charlie Hardy is 75 years old and has no money or political experience.
But none of that dissuades him from running for the U. Senate in his home state of Wyoming. On A Knife Edge. Working under severe and dangerous conditions they build the many new football stadiums before the world Cup, not happy with the food, the working conditions, nor the fact that they are modern slaves, in a desert country in severe lack of construction workers.
They build for the rich, which are in their own playground, adding racist rules like disallowing them to even go into the buildings they build after 10 o'clock in the morning. The only entertainment is the football cup which the different firms participate in, which is used for telling the world of great welfare benefits.
Apart from that they like the cup, they are not happy, missing their family, being away for years, not earning enough to stop working. They are simply exploited as slaves with low wages and no time off, even for a single day or a date.
A meeting with the workers, their dreams, and their frustrations. Their wish for another life, and getting back their own country to build for their family. The film is slow and well balanced only using text for the facts, and letting the workers talk.
OJT Nov 7, Details Edit. Release date November 8, Norway. Qatar United Kingdom. Damm, svett och match! Doha, Qatar. Technical specs Edit. Runtime 1 hour 32 minutes. Related news. May 25 firstshowing. Pack the World Cinema Docu Comp. Contribute to this page Suggest an edit or add missing content. Edit page.
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