This film shows the experience of women coming from several sectors (indigenous, infected by HIV/AIDS, peasants, lesbians, fishing workers, handicapped, afro-Costa-Ricans, banana workers affected by toxic, etc.) when they participated in the II Women's Parliament of Costa Rica.
This film shows the experience of women coming from several sectors (indigenous, infected by HIV/AIDS, peasants, lesbians, fishing workers, handicapped, afro-Costa-Ricans, banana workers affected by toxic, etc.) when they participated in the II Women's Parliament of Costa Rica.
“อูมา” เธอตื่นขึ้นมาใน “พาราไดซ์ ฮิลล์ส” ศูนย์พัฒนาบุคลิกภาพที่ตั้งอยู่บนเกาะเขตร้อน ซึ่งบรรดาครอบครัวชนชั้นสูงจะส่งลูกสาวมาเรียนรู้การเป็นสุภาพสตรีสมบูรณ์แบบ โดยมี “นายหญิง” ผู้ทรงพลังคอยช่วยปรับบุคลิกภาพ พวกเธอต้องผ่านชั้นเรียนมารยาท เรียนร้องเพลง คอร์สความงาม ยิมนาสติก และการไดเอ็ตสุดเข้มงวด แต่ไม่นานอูมาก็ตาสว่างเมื่อค้นพบว่า ณ ที่แห่งนี้มีความลับดำมืดซ่อนอยู่ภายใต้ความงามอันผิวเผิน เธอและเหล่าเพื่อนๆ จึงต้องหาทางออกจากพาราไดซ์ ฮิลล์สให้ทันเวลาก่อนที่ทุกอย่างจะสายเกินไป
In 1977, a book of photographs captured an awakening - women shedding the cultural restrictions of their childhoods and embracing their full humanity. This documentary revisits those photos, those women and those times and takes aim at our culture today that alarmingly shows the need for continued change.
Alone in her empty flat, from her window Anne observes the people passing by who nervously snatch up the personal belongings and pieces of furniture she has put out on the pavement. Her final gesture of taking a ring off her finger signals she is leaving her previous life in Holland behind. She goes to Ireland, where she chooses to lead a solitary, wandering existence, striding through the austere landscapes of Connemara. During her travels, she discovers a house that is home to a hermit, Martin.
India. Smita is an untouchable. She dreams of seeing her daughter escape her miserable condition and enter school. Italy. Giulia works in her father’s workshop. When he has an accident, she discovers that the family business is ruined. Canada. Sarah, a successful lawyer, is about to be promoted to the head of her firm when she learns that she is ill. Three lives, three women, three continents. Three battles to fight. Although they don’t know each other, Smita, Giulia and Sarah are unknowingly linked by their most intimate and singular bond.
In New York City, the lives of a lawyer, an actuary, a house-cleaner, a professor, and the people around them intersect as they ponder order and happiness in the face of life's cold unpredictability.
At New Mexico's Empire Zinc mine, Mexican-American workers protest the unsafe work conditions and unequal wages compared to their Anglo counterparts. Ramon Quintero helps organize the strike, but he is shown to be a hypocrite by treating his pregnant wife, Esperanza, with a similar unfairness. When an injunction stops the men from protesting, however, the gender roles are reversed, and women find themselves on the picket lines while the men stay at home.
Ana has just arrived from Colombia and is the maid of a luxurious mansion on the Costa Brava, where a family of wealthy art dealers spends their summers. The young woman works tirelessly and without a contract, under the promise of decent conditions at the end of the summer, if she remains obedient and discreet.
After a chance encounter with a mysterious couple claiming to be old friends, Andrés and Ana are invited to spend the evening at a beautiful, secluded old villa. As the night winds down, they begin to sense that there are some rather strange things going on around them and, after agreeing to sleep over, find themselves unwittingly pulled into a series of bizarre sexual encounters which they slowly discover are part of a horrifying Satanic ritual designed to make them slaves to the Prince of Darkness!
As a director and his crew shoot a controversial film about Christopher Columbus in Cochabamba, Bolivia, local people rise up against plans to privatize the water supply.
A documentary on the expletive's origin, why it offends some people so deeply, and what can be gained from its use.