Dean est un charpentier veuf menant une vie simple avec ses 4 enfants. À la demande de Joanna Stayton, une milliardaire capricieuse vivant sur un yacht, il construit un placard en chêne pour ses innombrables paires de chaussures. Mais la riche cliente refuse de le payer en prétextant que le placard aurait dû être fabriqué en cèdre, et l'envoie à l'eau avec ses outils. Lorsque Dean apprend plus tard que Joanna est elle-même tombée à l'eau en cherchant sa bague et est depuis lors tombée amnésique, il décide de se faire passer pour son mari et de la faire s'occuper de ses enfants pendant un mois en compensation de l'argent qu'il aurait dû toucher ...
War in Abkhazia, 1992. An Estonian man Ivo has stayed behind to harvest his crops of tangerines. In a bloody conflict at his door, a wounded man is left behind, and Ivo is forced to take him in.
Newcastle, Angleterre. Daniel Blake, victime d’une crise cardiaque au travail, est déclaré invalide par les médecins. Sans autre moyen de subsistance, ce veuf de 59 ans se voit obligé, pour la première fois de sa vie, de recourir à l’assistance sociale. Lorsque cette aide lui est refusée, Daniel fait appel. Cependant, le processus est long et tortueux. À bout de ressources, et bien qu’il ne soit plus apte à travailler, il est contraint de s’inscrire à l’assurance chômage et de chercher un emploi pour toucher des prestations. Lors d’un rendez-vous au centre local d’emploi, Daniel fait la rencontre de Katie, qui, comme lui, a maille à partir avec les services gouvernementaux. Aux prises avec les dérives administratives, les deux s’entraident pour survivre.
Bobby Walker lives the proverbial American dream: great job, beautiful family, shiny Porsche in the garage. When corporate downsizing leaves him and two co-workers jobless, the three men are forced to re-define their lives as men, husbands and fathers.
At the end of the 19th century, during a ball in Joinville, on the outskirts of Paris, Georges, a former delinquent working as a carpenter, meets Marie, a young woman connected to a criminal gang.
Andreas and Martin share all the ups and downs of everyday life, and their son is maturing. A cautious approach to the traces of a long relationship. The love story of two people. Not about how they come together, not a phase they go through, but all of their shared experiences: all the years between the first kiss and today.
A poor neighborhood in Mexico City. Carpenter Pepe el Toro lives peacefully with his daughter Chachita while woos the pretty Celia, but tragedy knocks his door when he is falsely accused of having perpetrated a felony.
A carpenter, who was executed in the electric chair, comes back to finish his dream house, now inhabited by a young married couple.
Sometimes the drama backstage is better than anything on it... Sometimes the drama backstage threatens to destroy everything on it.
In Pau Brasil, a small, lost village in the heart of Brazil, the families of Joaquim and Nives live side by side. Despite living in the same perverse structure of social oppression, they deal with life in radically different ways.
A young couple decides to build their dream house, but run into numerous complications in the process. Everything from useless carpenters to building control gets in their way. Norwegian comedian Rolv Wesenlund plays 7 different roles in this movie.
Despite the fact that the film is a documentary, its lead character and his life story are fictitious, though very probable. It is one of the best examples of creative documentary film-making of Wojciech Wiszniewski.
It is based on Perumthachan of the Parayi Petta Panthirukulam, a legend in the Kerala folklore. The problems caused by the generation gap are explored through the relationship between a skilled carpenter and his tradition-breaking son.
It is an animated adaptation of Lewis Carroll's whimsical poem in which the walrus and the carpenter entice a family of oysters to join them on their journey along the beach.
An unfit carpenter trails spies through a secret tunnel and blows them up.
Biel works at a carpenter’s workshop. He lives a routine and boring life, he doesn’t feel alright. Everything changes when he runs into a stranger on the subway, who makes him discover the little details around him, to see the daily spaces from another perspective and discover himself.
A story about the lives of Leila Avakh and Sedigheh Momennia who have chosen, with much love and passion, carpentry as a profession, a profession that is considered extremely masculine in the traditional society of Iran. As such, these two face many difficulties and obstacles. However, they are determined to prove to themselves and their society that it is not impossible to achieve your dreams. Leila and Sedigheh are amongst the first female carpenters in Iran.