Ali (2018)

Johnny Saxby es un joven granjero de Yorkshire que intenta evadirse de sus problemas con el alcohol y el sexo. Cuando llega al pueblo durante la primavera un inmigrante rumano para trabajar en la cría de ovejas, su visión de la vida cambiará de forma radical.

Singapur, 1997: Los Lim son una familia acomodada de tres miembros – marido, mujer e hijo – que recibe a Teresa (Angeli Bayani), una mujer filipina que ha venido a la metrópolis a servir, al igual que muchas otras compartriotas suyas en busca de una vida mejor. Toda la familia tiene que adaptarse a la presencia de esta extranjera, que altera aún más su relación ya tensa. Sin embargo, Teresa y Jiale (Koh Jia Ler), el problemático chico al que cuida, pronto forman un vínculo fuerte y afectuoso, que se va desarrollando, dándole al chico una sensación de pertenencia en una familia que se desintegra poco a poco, mismo vínculo que se verá amenazado por la irrupción de elementos externos – una crisis financiera – e internos en la dinámica familiar que los cambiarán para siempre. Inspirada en hechos de la infancia de su director. (FILMAFFINITY)

Años 30. Adaptación de la novela de John Steinbeck “De ratones y hombres” sobre la América de la Gran Depresión. Los protagonistas son dos amigos en paro, uno de ellos un retrasado mental, que son contratados para trabajar en un rancho.

Esta película para televisión dramatiza el histórico boicot a los autobuses públicos en la década de 1950, liderado por el líder de los derechos civiles Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Nick Broomfield met Hsiao Hung Pai, a journalist who was working for the Guardian, when making his feature film 'Ghosts' (about the Morecambe Bay Chinese Cockle Pickers ). As an experiment and using the latest in undercover technology, Nick worked with Hsiao to make a Undercover film set in a Chinese brothel in Finchley. There are over 2000 'illegal' brothels in London,largely ignored by the police and the authorities, which employ 80% foreign nationals, mostly illegal, that are easily exploited by the brothel owners.

Documentary film exploring the lives of the people at the flashpoint of the LA riots, 25 years after the uprising made national headlines and highlighted the racial divide in America.

Filmmaker Judith Helfand's searing investigation into the politics of “disaster” – by way of the deadly 1995 Chicago heat wave, in which 739 residents perished (mostly Black and living in the city’s poorest neighborhoods).

A detailing of the plight of white South African farmers.

Soft boys by day, kings by night. The film follows a group of young Bulgarian Roma who come to Vienna looking for freedom and a quick buck. They sell their bodies as if that's all they had. What comforts them, so far from home, is the feeling of being together. But the nights are long and unpredictable.

Jared Teeter has to work in a forced labor camp in Florida to make ends meet. "Angel City" is no place for the faint of heart.

The film depicts the life of Najeeb Muhammad (Prithviraj), an Indian abused migrant worker, who was forced to survived in a desert to herd goats in Saudi Arabia.

A man that is a stranger, is an incredibly easy man to hate. However, walking in a stranger’s shoes, even for a short while, can transform a perceived adversary into an ally. Power is found in coming to know our neighbor’s hearts. For in the darkness of ignorance, enemies are made and wars are waged, but in the light of understanding, family extends beyond blood lines and legacies of hatred crumble.

Lola is a young gypsy of uncertain origin who was adopted, as a newborn, by a family among whom she has grown up with gypsy customs and traditions. When the young woman finishes high school, she considers, against her family and her social environment, to continue her studies and pursue a teaching career. At that moment of his adolescent life, love appears when he meets Juan, a gypsy of his age.

From the Sahara to Mellila, witnesses talk about how they narrowly escaped death, unlike their companions - all migrants who were literally and symbolically swallowed up by the frontier.

Nia from the Philippines works as a family maid in Taiwan. She prefers to stay in her private room, where a door separates her from her employers, but this upsets her employers.This is a story about being away from home.

Chano es deportado a México tras vivir casi toda su vida ilegalmente en Estados Unidos. Ahora, alejado de su esposa e hijas, vive solo y deprimido en un país extraño, al que se supone pertenece. Mientras reconstruye una motocicleta antigua con Don Memo, un ex corredor de motos con quien se ve obligado a trabajar, encontrará la respuesta de dónde está su hogar.

When Umi and Dwipa left Indonesia to work in an Ontario greenhouse as part of Canada's Temporary Foreign Worker Program, they hoped the jobs would provide the opportunity and income for a better life. They didn't expect that fixers and false promises would lead to deception and exploitation. Sadly, their story is not uncommon. Min Sook Lee continues to speak truth to power with her commitment to providing a voice to the silenced, fulfilling documentary's capacity as a powerful tool for social change.

Farewell Ferris Wheel explores how the U.S. Carnival industry fights to keep itself alive by legally employing Mexican migrant workers with the controversial H-2B guestworker visa.

This deeply human documentary examines the subject of environmental destruction, highlighting the impoverished migrant workers who are chopping down the Amazon rainforest to create charcoal for pig iron production used primarily in the automobile industry. The film examines the children and elders and their daily lives and work as they burn timber in igloo-looking huts, their bodies charred gray for $2 a day, struggling to survive.

Follows Vietnamese migrant workers, to examine the reasons behind their numerous escapes and to trace the family situations of those who were deported from Taiwan.