FILMS+EVENTS
Director(s): Stephanie Black
Thematic Program

Each year thousands of Jamaicans spend six months cutting sugar cane by hand in Florida.  They arrive with hopes of decent wages and a better life, only to find themselves exploited in ways that recall the shameful days of slavery. 

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Director(s): Vaughan Pilikian
Thematic Program

In a surreal, unending cycle, workers at the shipbreaking yards of Gujarat in India take monstrous ships apart, bolt by bolt, using only the simplest of tools.

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Director(s): Hannes Vartiainen, Pekka Veikkolainen
NEW DOCS

In this experimental short, time-lapse photography transforms the demolition of a coal-fired power plant into a stunning work of art.

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Director(s): Petra Epperlein, Michael Tucker
Invited

Four soldiers who fought together in Iraq come home to resume their normal lives—with very different results. As one of them says, "We went to war as a unit and came home alone."

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