On a hot summer day, Paloma decides to fulfill her most cherished dream: a traditional wedding in a church with her boyfriend Zé. She is a devoted mother, a hard-working farmhand in a papaya plantation and has been saving to afford the celebration. The priest’s refusal to marry her and Zé will force Paloma to confront the rural society. She suffers violence, betrayal, prejudice and injustice but nothing shakes the faith and determination of this transgender woman.

In the eighteenth century, the family of BBC World News anchor and correspondent, Laura Trevelyan, were absentee slave owners on the island of Grenada, profiting for years from the sale of sugar harvested from five different sugar cane plantations. When slavery was abolished in 1834, the UK government paid compensation to slave owners, but the enslaved received nothing. In the wake of the racial reckoning in America following the death of George Floyd, Grenada's national commission on reparations for slavery has begun to meet and debate what reparations means. In this film, Laura she travels to Grenada to try and learn more about the legacy of slavery on Grenada and her family's involvement in the slave trade.

Within a banana plantation and a botanic garden, a panel of botanic experts are challenged to discuss contemporary trends in gardening, scientific classification, and monocultural crops by an astute interviewer. The hidden politics of the experts’ positions are uncomfortably exposed and confronted with reality, as they render themselves suspicious of their own language.

Amidst the ruins of a coconut plantation in rural Trinidad, Asha, a displaced girl seeking her roots, is drawn to a young fisherman who shares her desire to look beyond.

When an orphaned Vietnamese girl is hired to be a housemaid at a haunted rubber plantation in 1953 French Indochina, she unexpectedly falls in love with the French landowner and awakens the vengeful ghost of his dead wife... who is out for blood.

Año 1953. Dos hermanos viajan desde los Pirineos de Huesca hasta la colonia española de Fernando Poo (actualmente Bioko), isla de Guinea Ecuatorial, para trabajar en una plantación de cacao. Allí Kilian se enamora de una nativa, un amor prohibido en aquellos tiempos en los que algunas líneas no se podían traspasar. Medio siglo después, Clarence descubre de forma accidental una carta olvidada durante años que la empuja a viajar desde la tranquila vida en las montañas de Huesca a Bioko. Su objetivo es visitar la tierra en la que su padre Jacobo y su tío Kilian pasaron la mayor parte de su juventud, y así intentar resolver los enigmas familiares y desvelar los secretos de lo ocurrido. En las entrañas de un territorio tan exuberante y seductor como peligroso, Clarence desentierra el secreto de una historia de amor imposible enmarcada en unas turbulentas circunstancias históricas cuyas consecuencias alcanzarán el presente.

The famous fairy tale of Cinderella is adapted to our times, considering as background the present situation of Puerto Rican coffee growers. The story is set in Lares, Puerto Rico, at a time close to Christmas. Miosotis’s father has died and Ava Rice, his widow, wants to sell his family coffee farm to a foreign company, whose monopoly on the island continues to displace the country's coffee growers.

En los Estados Unidos de antes de la guerra, Solomon Northup, un hombre negro libre del norte del estado de Nueva York, es secuestrado y vendido como esclavo.

Why is the price of a banana from Central America only a third of that of an apple from Michigan? This documentary attempts to answer that question by examining the supply chain between Central America and the US, and uncovering the violence that has enabled the banana industry for more than a century.

A story about two half-sisters life in the eighteenth century Suriname. There is Lynda, a white colonial and slave owner, and her slave Mini-Mini's. While Lynda is slowly embittered by the hard life in the colony, Mini-Mini gets a chance at her own happiness. The question is, if she dares to seize that chance, as this happiness is at the expense of her mistress and half sister?

Before independence during the 1940's depicts the lives of poor carefree villagers who are lured to work in tea plantation farms and how they are forced to live rest of their lives as slaves with no traces of hope and freedom.

En Texas, dos años antes de estallar la Guerra Civil Americana, King Schultz, un cazarrecompensas alemán que sigue la pista a unos asesinos para cobrar por sus cabezas, le promete al esclavo negro Django dejarlo en libertad si le ayuda a atraparlos. Él acepta, pues luego quiere ir a buscar a su esposa Broomhilda, esclava en una plantación del terrateniente Calvin Candie.

Ever since it was revealed that the chocolate industry is involved with child slavery in the Ivory Coast, the industry has been busy – due to consumer demands – explaining what exactly it does to actively fight trafficking and child labour. But does the industry live up to its own promises?In this investigative film, director Miki Mistrati tries to find out, if the chocolate industry – which is one of the largest corporations in the world – speak the truth, when they say that they provide education, medical care etc for the children of the Ivory Coast. But the project runs into trouble already from the get-go, because the embassy of the Ivory Coast won’t let Miki enter the country until he has an invitation – from the chocolate industry.

Lisbon, Portugal, 2010. Pilar, a pious woman devoted to social causes, maintains a peculiar relationship with her neighbor Aurora, a temperamental old woman obsessed with gambling who lives tormented by a mysterious past.

A team of journalists investigate how human trafficking and child labor in the Ivory Coast fuels the worldwide chocolate industry. The crew interview both proponents and opponents of these alleged practices, and use hidden camera techniques to delve into the gritty world of cocoa plantations.

Juan “Accidentes” Dominguez is on his biggest case ever. On behalf of twelve Nicaraguan banana workers he is tackling Dole Food in a ground-breaking legal battle for their use of a banned pesticide that was known by the company to cause sterility. Can he beat the giant, or will the corporation get away with it?

Taro planter Lui's grief for his dead wife has infected his whole life. A chance meeting with a stranger, a widow bound in anger to the grave of her husband now drowning in their cyclone devastated village, inspires Lui to reach out to her. This releases him from his own pain and allows his wife to rest.

Tells the story of Fisher Willow, the disliked 1920s Memphis débutante daughter of a plantation owner with a distaste for narrow-minded people and a penchant for shocking and insulting those around her. After returning from studies overseas, Fisher falls in love with Jimmy, the down-and-out son of an alcoholic father and an insane mother who works at a store on her family's plantation.

Después de abandonar su trabajo de enfermera en una clínica, Caroline (Hudson) es contratada para cuidar de un anciano que ha sufrido una embolia, aunque la esposa de éste (Rowlands) la acoge con bastante recelo. El matrimonio vive en una siniestra mansión sureña en las afueras de Nueva Orleáns, en el delta del Mississippi (Louisiana). Intrigada por las extrañas costumbres de la enigmática pareja, Caroline decide explorar la casa. Armada con una llave maestra, empieza a abrir todas las puertas hasta que descubre un desván secreto que contiene un terrible secreto.

Towards the end of the Civil War a group of Confederate soldiers hole up on an abandoned plantation after robbing a bank, and find themselves at the mercy of supernatural forces.