Normalisace (1952)

Cuando el director de una importante empresa se suicida, todos los accionistas se ponen de acuerdo y elaboran un plan para obtener los mayores beneficios posibles: se trata de poner al frente del consejo de dirección a alguien fácilmente manipulable. Todo parece sencillo hasta que entra en escena Amy Archer.

Josie, Melody y Val son tres chicas músicas de un pequeño pueblo decididas a sacar a su banda de rock del garaje y llevarlas directamente a la cima, sin dejar de ser fieles a su apariencia, estilo y sonido. Consiguen un contrato discográfico que trae fama y fortuna, pero pronto se dan cuenta de que son peones de dos personas que quieren controlar a la juventud de Estados Unidos. Deben limpiar sus nombres, aunque eso signifique perder fama y fortuna.

Morgan Sullivan, un contable sin trabajo y atrapado en un rutinario matrimonio sueña con dejar atrás su gris existencia y comenzar una nueva vida llena de libertad y emociones. Decide entonces incorporarse a la multinacional Digicorp y convertirse en un espía industrial. Con una nueva identidad, su trabajo consiste en asistir a distintas convenciones empresariales para recoger todo tipo de información y transmitírsela a Ed Finster, su desalmado jefe. Pero en el transcurso de su trabajo, Morgan conoce a la bella y escurridiza Rita, quien le revelará las verdaderas actividades de Digicorp.

En una zona rural de Ohio, Kip y Josie, hermanos, se ven obligados a traficar con opioides para sobrevivir. Tras un negocio fallido, Kip trata de abandonar el mundo del narcotráfico, pero su decisión va a desencadenar una ola de violencia.

Karly Hert (Katherine Heigl) lleva varios años trabajando en una compañía farmaceútica, pero últimamente ha comenzado a cuestionarse ciertos detalles éticos de la empresa, al tiempo que se enamora de Zach (Lucian McAfee), un joven vendedor que incita a Karly a ser fiel a sus valores.

MANUFACTURED LANDSCAPES is the striking new documentary on the world and work of renowned artist Edward Burtynsky. Internationally acclaimed for his large-scale photographs of “manufactured landscapes”—quarries, recycling yards, factories, mines and dams—Burtynsky creates stunningly beautiful art from civilization’s materials and debris.

When he started as a comedy writer for the Late Show with David Letterman, Steve Young had few interests and not many friends outside of his day job. But while gathering material for a segment on the show, Steve stumbled onto a few vintage record albums that would change his life forever.

A detailed look at the gradual decline of Shenyang’s industrial Tiexi district, an area that was once a vibrant example of China’s socialist economy. But industry is changing, and the factories of Tiexi are closing. Director Wang Bing introduces us to some of the workers affected by the closures, and to their families.

A film about fireworks, the people who make them and the cultures behind them across the globe.

From the Sea to the Land Beyond is a film about the British coast made from 100 years of our film heritage stored in the British Film Institute collection, edited by Penny Woolcock with a soundtrack by British Sea Power

An original portrayal of a small Czech village where – as the locals put it – an UFO has landed in the form of a kilometre-long silverish factory: a Korean Hyundai automobile plant. The village, hitherto famous mostly for its sauerkraut and the “Radegast” beer was thus turned into an industrial zone – the largest greenfield investment project in the Czech Republic’s history. Nonetheless, for a long time many farmers resisted selling the land upon which the factory was now standing. Eventually, they all succumbed under the pressure from the neighbours, and even the anonymous death threats. The filmmakers returned to Nošovice two years after the dramatic property buyouts, at the time when the factory has just started churning out cheap cars. Combining the perspectives of seven characters, they have composed a portrayal of a place suddenly changed beyond recognition that is playful and chilling at the same time: a politically engaged absurd flick about a field that yields cars.

The main events unfold in the train. The acceptance committee from Moscow, revealing deficiencies in the constructed bakery, did not sign the act of its delivery. But the fate of not only many people associated with the construction, but also the life of the town as a whole depends on this. Lyonya Shindin — a conscientious and decent man — is trying by all means and by any means to change the decision of the commission...

Una situación excepcional que se ha producido en una empresa de construcción ha hecho que se convoque una reunión extraordinaria del Comité del Partido. Es inhabitual el tema a discutir: el equipo de Potapov al completo ha renunciado a recibir una prima porque les parecía que no se la merecían.

Grierson set out to make "propaganda," and this film--with it's voice-over proclaiming the great value of the British industrial worker, without a hint of ambiguity or doubt--fits that category well. The authoritatarian narrator feels out-of-date and unsophisticated, but the footage is well shot and interesting, and the transparency of the propaganda aspect is almost a reflief at a time when so many films have hidden agendas.

In a futuristic, antiseptic food factory, workers select healthy chicks, while the rejects are carried along a conveyor belt until they are crushed by a mallet and drop into a garbage bin. A single black chick appears among the yellow and is shoved toward the garbage bin. Before the mallet strikes, the gasping chick rebels.

Created in the Victorian era to widen the mouth of the River Tees for shipping, South Gare is a man-made peninsula extending four kilometres into the cold North Sea. Today, the industry it was built for has gone, but the Gare remains as a haven for all sorts of unexpected communities - kite-surfers, photographers, bird-watchers, scuba-divers and the people who simply appreciate its strange, lonely beauty.

An unlikely band of misfits has made their home on a roof between a feed mill and the municipal waste treatment plant. But life is good, away from society and living of this leftovers. Lisbeth, Herbert and Walther have created their own self-sufficient little paradise. While Herbert is hunting cats, Lisbeth tends to the self-grown vegetables and Walther angles for usable scrap from the dump down below. One morning though, the peace is disrupted: A nameless, suit wearing stranger has appeared overnight and set up his tent among their huts. He does not speak, but obviously he intents to stay. The rooftop dwellers are anxious. Will he destroy their perfect little society? Or can he be part of it… incorporated so to speak... ?

SCHICHT (SHIFT) is both a reckoning and a search for traces of the past. Layer by layer the film unfolds the portrait of the filmmaker's family - brought to life by records from private archives - and embarks on a dizzying trip through the shrinking industrial city of Salzgitter, Germany.

The doors of the jam produced by a company do not open. In order for them to be able to sell their jam, they reward the one who can open the jam. All the people try to open the door of the jam.

Lingerie--a word that conjures up silk, seduction and sensuality, the items that can create a curve or a mood. Underwear is the first thing to touch you in the morning and the last to touch you at night. Whether or not it's seen by anyone else, what you're wearing next to your skin matters. This sexy documentary shows you who makes these all-important articles, who sells them, and what influences people to buy them.