Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch (1942)

‘No Longer Human’ follows the life of a newly homeless man who has fallen deep into the pits of loneliness. We all need someone, or something, to make sense of everything. That could take the shape of God, a partner, a best friend, but in this case... a dog.

Chris Gardner é um vendedor, que apesar do seu talento, luta desesperadamente por conseguir sustentar a família. A mulher acaba por deixá-lo sozinho com o filho de cinco anos e Chris decide aceitar um estágio não remunerado numa conceituada empresa, na esperança de conseguir emprego no final. No entanto, as suas dívidas levam a que os dois sejam despejados do apartamento onde vivem e tenham de recorrer a todos os refúgios possíveis para passar a noite...

Um ácido e divertido retrato da mecânica da sociedade de consumo. Acompanhando a trajetória de um simples tomate, desde a plantação até ser jogado fora, o curta escancara o processo de geração de riqueza e as desigualdades que surgem no meio do caminho.

Era uma vez uma velha que descobre um bebê em seu canteiro de repolhos. Ela acolhe a criança e, quando ela morre, o menino, Totó, vai para um orfanato. Totó deixa o orfanato um jovem feliz, e procura por trabalho em Milão da pós-guerra. Ele acaba com os sem-teto e os organiza para construir uma favela em um terreno baldio. Os invasores descobrem petróleo na terra e Totó tem uma visão da antiga mulher que lhe dá uma pomba mágica que irá conceder-lhe qualquer coisa que ele quiser.

Maxed Out takes us on a journey deep inside the American debt-style, where everything seems okay as long as the minimum monthly payment arrives on time. Sure, most of us may have that sinking feeling that something isn't quite right, but we're told not to worry. After all, there's always more credit!

DEBT is the story of a frantic pursuit: the search for the responsible for the televised cry of hunger of Barbara Flores, an eight-year-old Argentinean girl. Buenos Aires, Washington, the IMF, the World Bank and Davos; corruption and the international bureaucratic lack of interest.

At the height of the Great Depression, Tommy's mother has been out of work for months when Eddie's father loses his job. Eager not to burden their parents, the two high school Sophomores decide to hop the freight trains and look for work.

The End of Poverty? asks if the true causes of poverty today stem from a deliberate orchestration since colonial times which has evolved into our modern system whereby wealthy nations exploit the poor. People living and fighting against poverty answer condemning colonialism and its consequences; land grab, exploitation of natural resources, debt, free markets, demand for corporate profits and the evolution of an economic system in in which 25% of the world's population consumes 85% of its wealth. Featuring Nobel Prize winner Amartya Sen and Joseph Stiglitz, authors/activist Susan George, Eric Toussaint, Bolivian Vice President Alvaro Garcia Linera and more.

Heist: Who Stole the American Dream? reveals how American corporations orchestrated the dismantling of middle-class prosperity through rampant deregulation, the outsourcing of jobs, and tax policies favoring businesses and the wealthy. The collapse of the U.S. economy is the result of conscious choices made over thirty five years by a small group: leaders of corporations and their elected allies, and the biggest lobbying interest in Washington, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. To these individuals, the collapse is not a catastrophe, but rather the planned outcome of their long, patient work. For the rest of the country, it is merely the biggest heist in American history.

Insiang é a filha explorada da favela que suporta abusos de todos ao seu redor: seu namorado insensível, sua mãe harpia e o amante mais jovem e desprezível de sua mãe. Mas depois de ser estuprada por ele, a timidez de Insiang se transforma em determinação para se vingar.

Skippy, the mischievous son of a wealthy doctor, meets Sooky in poverty-ridden Shantytown, and together they try to save Sooky's pet from a cruel dogcatcher.

An unemployed man turns to crime when he gets his girlfriend pregnant.

U.S. Labor Secretary Robert Reich tries to raise awareness of the country's widening economic gap.

A penniless, fast-thinking musician buys a lottery ticket which he glues to his back door, in hopes of eventually retrieving his instrument from his exasperating landlady. —but the ticket wins...

Though the recession officially ended in summer 2009, the fallout continues for some 25 million unemployed and underemployed Americans, many of whom worked their way up the corporate ladder..

If income inequality were a sport, the residents of 740 Park Avenue in Manhattan would all be medalists. This address boasts the highest number of billionaires in the United States.

A story inspired by a shoe-doll displayed in Childhood Museum, Edinburgh. This short film shows a touching story about a young girl and her father in a poverty, London, 1910s. Qian Shi's BA Animation graduation film. The Best Student Film of BAF08. MX Award at TAF2010 (Tokyo Anime Fair 2010).

Etienne makes a good living out of marrying off poor but titled young men to rich but untitled young ladies. Millicent is now in his sights on the Riviera, and Grand Duke Gaspar is the bait. But what if Millicent starts to fancy planted chauffeur John instead, and Gaspar takes a shine to Etienne's secretary Janine?

Documentary collecting some experiences of the first two years of the "Gira interminable" tour were Silvio Rodriguez performs for the marginal neighborhoods of Havana and other provinces.

In an office, a row of desks, with people facing each other. This is where unemployed people come to meet with their supervisors. At stake: their benefit payments. Here everyone has to abide by the same rigid procedure and bureaucracy but each has their own life, their own story. © Filmer à tout prix