Bootlegger (2021)
Género : Drama
Tiempo de ejecución : 1H 21M
Director : Caroline Monnet
Sinopsis
Mani, a master’s student, returns to the reserve in northern Quebec where she grew up. Her painful past resurfaces. Resolved to reintegrate into the community, she gets involved in the debate around a referendum on allowing the free sale of alcohol on the reserve. Laura, a bootlegger, pockets the profits she makes there under the protection of the band council and her partner Raymond. The latter is still angry with Mani, whom he holds responsible for the death of his daughter in a fire. Opposing forces quickly divide the community into two sides who face each other to determine the best path to independence.
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En 1722, un holandés descubrió una isla en el Pacífico Sur, a la que sus habitantes llamaban Rapa Nui, pero él la bautizó como Isla de Pascua. Muchos años antes había tenido lugar en la isla un grave conflicto de carácter social: los Orejas Cortas constituían la clase inferior y construían estatuas por orden de los Orejas Largas, que eran los nobles. Como tales sólo los Orejas Largas tenían derecho a participar en la competición anual que determinaba quién sería el nuevo Hombre Pájaro. Pero uno de los jóvenes competidores del certamen se había enamorado de una muchacha de los Orejas Cortas. Ese amor sólo podría triunfar en el caso de que él superara las pruebas y ella accediera a pasar dentro de una cueva las lunas que faltaban hasta el día de la competición. (FILMAFFINITY)
Alex has a deeply troubled mind. He also has a seriously dysfunctional - not to say incestuous - family. Why then, has he returned from his merchant seaman job to the rocky coasts of his home? Perhaps he couldn't cut manage to march in his father's footsteps in that job. His mother doesn't seem to mind, and lets him stay at her bed and breakfast hotel. His sister still seems to have the hots for him, just as she does for his (and her) old boyfriend Jean-Louis, who has just shown up. Even his mother seems to find him sexy. All these people appear eager to get their hands on his body, but he's too wrapped up in what's going on inside his head to notice.
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A white lawyer finds his values shaken when he is paired with an angry Indigenous activist who insists on kidnapping the head of a logging company to teach him the price of his destruction.
After 3 years abroad Junior returns to Iceland with his set of problems hoping that his father can sort them out but his homecoming isn't quite what he had expected.
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The Algonquin once lived in harmony with the vast territory they occupied. This balance was upset when the Europeans arrived in the 16th century. Gradually, their Aboriginal traditions were undermined and their natural resources plundered. Today, barely 9,000 Algonquin are left. They live in about 10 communities, often enduring abject poverty and human rights abuses. These Aboriginal people are suffering the threat to their very existence in silence. Richard Desjardins and Robert Monderie have decided to sound the alarm before it's too late.
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En una toldería se produce un homicidio y un joven es condenado a muerte por ello, pero su padre, el verdadero autor, asume su responsabilidad ante el comandante.
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