Negli ultimi 250 anni l’ideologia liberista ha avuto un ruolo centrale nello sviluppo delle logiche e delle retoriche che hanno influenzato la vita quotidiana delle popolazioni di tutto il mondo occidentale. È stata messa all’angolo per alcuni decenni durante il Novecento a favore di un’economia sociale per l’interesse pubblico, per poi tornare alla ribalta negli ultimi trent’anni del secolo a dominare le logiche che guidano le economie mondiali, facendo il favore delle élites a discapito del 99%. Attraverso la testimonianza di sei persone informate sui fatti, Lasciateci Fare Vol. 1 offre una prospettiva storica e ideologica attraverso cui individuare i fondamentali problemi del meccanismo economico su cui si basano le società occidentali.
Eve Vernet è stata per anni la più grande coltivatrice di rose di Francia. Oggi però si trova sull’orlo della bancarotta e la sua azienda è sul punto di essere acquisita da un potente concorrente. Vera, la sua fedele segretaria, le prova tutte per tentare di salvare la situazione e alla fine crede di poter trovare una soluzione rivolgendosi ai servizi sociali e assumendo tre dipendenti senza alcuna esperienza nel settore… Fra le mille difficoltà, si imbarcano insieme in un’avventura davvero unica per salvare la piccola azienda.
Five ex-soldiers go to a small town in Oregon to help a friend investigate the murder of his brother.
A young man who loses his job is trapped in a small town that has fallen victim to economic ruin. He resorts to extreme measures to escape and start a new life.
A young woman who has just started a job at an art museum writes an email to a friend she lived with until recently. The other woman, also young, works as an artist and has just moved to a new city. A narrator reads this email, but we don't know which of the two women the voice belongs to, whether to the sender or to the receiver of the message. Neither are we aware of the details of this relationship; but what we do know is that, in addition to their interest in art, they share a concern for the difficulties of carrying out their personal and professional lives in the present. By focusing on the peripheral or hidden details of some paintings in the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, this narrator relates several stories linked to the social, economic and psychological conditions of the artists, both past and present.
Carlos and Toñi live in a tiny apartment in a marginal neighborhood. They have not been able to pay their rent for months, the power is cut off quite often and they survive by collecting scrap metal. Now the day has come when Henrik and Jens, two Danish tourists willing to spend a day with a poor family, come to meet them.
Tres pescadores barbateños, Manuel (Pablo Carbonell), un hombre bueno al que apodan "Nadando con Chocos"; el Perra (Pedro Reyes), su amigo fiel, y El Cherif (Antonio Dechent), un paria iracundo y orgulloso, intentan sobrevivir como pueden a pesar de la crisis pesquera que vive la costa gaditana.Un día Manolín (Andrés Rivera), el hijo de Manuel, llega a casa con un problema más: quiere hacer la comunión. Algo que provocará más de una sorpresa. Primero porque no está bautizado y segundo porque sus padres ni siquiera están casados. Contagiados por la ilusión de su hijo, María y Manuel deciden ordenar su vida y casarse. María lo organiza todo: arregla con el singular cura del pueblo (Paco Vegara) para que oficie la ceremonia, busca los trajes, invita a los vecinos... Pero claro, no hay boda sin convite. Y eso cuesta dinero. ¿Cómo conseguirlo?
A travelogue through the remains of São Paulo failing 80s economy, including its in ruins film industry.
Afro-American men and women express their views on why some Black men are travelling from the US to Brazil to find sex partners.
Ambientato nel Giappone del ventesimo secolo, il documentario esplora il ruolo e il potere delle Banche Centrali e come possono essere usate per cambiare la struttura economica, politica e sociale di una nazione. Il documentario è un adattamento del libro del prof. Richard Werner.
The discussion between two brothers, Elías and Gabriel, will trigger a dilemma that will force one of them to make a decision.
Cyrille, a young gay farmer from Auvergne, has only one friend, a homosexual like him. One day, he goes on vacation to a beach in Charente Maritime. He cannot swim and sees the sea for the first time. It was there that he met the director Rodolphe Marconi who decided to devote this sensitive and gentle portrait to him, plunging us into an agricultural world in crisis and into a life often lonely and made up of hard work rarely pays off.
Marcy Meyers is down on her luck. Faced with piling bills, the remnants of a failed marriage, and now an imminent home foreclosure, she has nowhere to turn but to the hope of a miracle. That miracle she finds in Shoot the Moon, a national game show that promises a one in a lifetime chance to win it all. But Marcy's faith in the show comes with a price. As her relationship with her daughter Alice is put to the test, the clock ticks towards a seemingly inescapable fate. Shoot the Moon tells the story of miracles and the extraordinary place they are found.
Short animation by Renzo and Sayoko Kinoshita satirizes in a non narrative way the 'economic animal' Japan and predicted the economic recession in the 70s
The film explores how the three British colonies of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island became provinces of Canada and charts the subsequent decline of their economies after Confederation. Photographs, archival drawings, cartoons and interviews with Maritime historians are used to document the case.
Questo corto racconta le vicende di un uomo ai margini che, per campare, recupera vecchie cassette dai negozi e dalla strada e se le carica in spalla per rivenderle a pochi centesimi. Una storia di povertà, emarginazione, ma anche riscatto sociale e solidarietà, tratteggiata dalla regista con un tocco di poesia, passione e disincanto.