Lorsqu’une épidémie de grippe canine envahit la ville japonaise de Megasaki et menace de contaminer les hommes, le maire ordonne la mise en quarantaine de tous les chiens. L’île poubelle devient : l’Île aux Chiens. Un jeune garçon de 12 ans, Atari, se rend sur place à la recherche de son chien perdu, Spots. C’est alors qu’il fait la découverte, à l’aide d’une meute de cinq chiens, d’une conspiration qui menace la ville.
L'amour et la confiance d'un couple de cambrioleurs sont mises à rude épreuve lorsque Carol, pour liberer Doc McCoy enfermé dans une prison mexicaine, doit faire appel à Jack Benyon, malfrat de haut vol seul capable de le faire libérer.
An uplifting feature documentary highlighting the transformative power of art and the beauty of the human spirit. Top-selling contemporary artist Vik Muniz takes us on an emotional journey from Jardim Gramacho, the world's largest landfill on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, to the heights of international art stardom. Vik collaborates with the brilliant catadores, pickers of recyclable materials, true Shakespearean characters who live and work in the garbage quoting Machiavelli and showing us how to recycle ourselves.
Douze minutes, c'est le temps durant lequel nous suivons le parcours d'une tomate, depuis sa production dans la plantation de M. Suzuki, jusqu'à son point d'arrivée, décharge publique de l'île aux Fleurs. Film pamphlet, systématique et grinçant, ce court métrage dénonce la sous-humanité qu'entraîne l'économie de marché et les 13 millions de Brésiliens sous-alimentés.
Belgrade in 2041 is a deserted city that looks like a dump yard. A few old men try to bring up a group of young girls in the old, traditional way of their Yugoslav ancestors.
Omondi lives in the biggest slum in East Africa. Everyday he sees airplanes fly over him. He dreams of becoming an airline pilot and flying far away.
A young boy and his young sister are playing on a rubbish dump, acting out their parents' divorce. For this they use their father's things which their mother brought to the dumping ground out of anger. The girl only wants to use their fathers things, but the boy finds something that he finds much more interesting.
Right outside of Moscow – home to the highest number of billionaires pr. capita – you’ll find the largest junkyard in the world: The Svalka. It’s a hard place run by the Russian mafia. And it's where Yula lives with her mother, her friends and many other people. Life is tough in the Svalka, but it’s also a place where beauty and humanity can arise from the most unlikely conditions. It is from this place that Yula dreams of escaping and changing her life, even if it seems impossible. Oscar-nominated director Hanna Polak followed Yula for 14 years, bringing us along on Yula's journey to achieve this dream.
Documentary about a rubbish dump by Allen Willis, Philip Greene, and David Myers.
Documentary about a group of people who live on a waste dump.