In 2016, the last textile weaving factory from the communist era in North-West China was demolished. 'Weaving' follows two textile worker families during the five year demolition process as they struggle to adapt to outside change while trying to keep their families intact. Where old and new social values collide, their story allows us to take a closer look inside China's changing family dynamic in an increasingly materialistic and complex society.
In 2016, the last textile weaving factory from the communist era in North-West China was demolished. 'Weaving' follows two textile worker families during the five year demolition process as they struggle to adapt to outside change while trying to keep their families intact. Where old and new social values collide, their story allows us to take a closer look inside China's changing family dynamic in an increasingly materialistic and complex society.
Ming Wang is an impoverished Chinese prodigy who flees Communist China to become a pioneering eye surgeon in America. When tasked with restoring the sight of an orphan in India, who was blinded by her stepmother, Wang must confront the trauma of living through the violent uprising in his youth, the Cultural Revolution.
Norma Rae is a southern textile worker employed in a factory with intolerable working conditions. This concern about the situation gives her the gumption to be the key associate to a visiting labor union organizer. Together, they undertake the difficult, and possibly dangerous, struggle to unionize her factory.
A poor, struggling South Carolinian mother and daughter face painful choices with their resolve and pride. Bone, the eldest daughter, and Anney her tired mother, grow both closer and farther apart: Anney sees Glen as her last chance.
Life in the small town of Grandview, Illinois is one that is just like any other city or town. Tim Pearson, soon to be graduating high school wants to go to Florida to study oceanography. He meets Michelle "Mike" Cody and is attracted to her. She runs the local Demolition Derby place. Ernie "Slam" Webster is one of the drivers in the derby whose wife is cheating on him and wants to later on be with Mike. Tim falls for Mike and a big love triangle is about to happen.
เรื่องราวสร้างแรงบันดาลใจของริชาร์ด มอนทาเนซ ที่นำเอาการเติบโตแบบคนเม็กซิกัน-อเมริกันมาทำให้เฟลมินฮอตชีโตสกลายเป็นปรากฏการณ์ระดับโลก
ลึกเข้าไปในป่าของแปซิฟิกนอร์ธเวสต์ห่างจากชุมชน พ่อผู้ทุ่มเท (วิกโก มอร์เทนเซน) อุทิศตัวให้กับการเลี้ยงลูกทั้งหกคน ในการศึกษาทั้งทางกายภาพและทางปัญญาอย่างเคร่งครัด แต่เมื่อโศกนาฏกรรมของครอบครัวเกิดขึ้นจากผู้เป็นแม่ที่เสียไป ทำให้พวกเขาต้องออกมาจากสวรรค์ที่พวกเขาสร้างขึ้น และเริ่มต้นการเดินทางสู่โลกภายนอกที่ท้าทายและนำคำถามทุกอย่างมาสู่พวกเขา
Film from Andrew Morgan. The True Cost is a documentary film exploring the impact of fashion on people and the planet.
A unique friendship develops when a little girl and her dying mother inherit a cook - Mr. Church. What begins as an arrangement that should only last six months, instead spans fifteen years.
In 1960s Los Angeles an energetic widow and her six children try to make a dream of theirs come true: to have a home of their own. They leave L.A. and head for the countryside, all the while facing numerous difficulties and obstacles during their journey.
In a forgotten pocket of Southern Ohio where American manufacturing and opportunity are drying up, a determined young woman finds a ticket out when she is accepted to college. Alongside her older brother, Ruth Avery joins a dangerous scrap metal crew in order to pay her way. Together, they spend one brutal winter working the scrap yards during the day and stealing valuable metal from the once thriving factories by night. With her goal in sight, Ruth finds that the ultimate cost of an education for a girl like her may be more than she bargained for, and she soon finds herself torn between a promising future and the family she would leave behind.