Et je choisis de vivre

At just 30 years old, Amande loses her child. To rebuild herself, she undertakes an initiatory journey in the Drôme, accompanied by her friend director, Nans Thomassey.

2019-06-05 | fr

Mission Asset Fund - 2014 Community Leadership Awards

"Mission Asset Fund's work cuts to the core of the financial pain points families everywhere face." - Sam Ruiz

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Les templiers, la démesure des Batisseurs

2024-07-25 | fr

Se battre

Today, countless French people of all ages find it hard making ends meet. We know virtually nothing about these lives, their innermost thoughts, their daily routine and their struggle to survive. Stigmatized by misleading and unfair descriptions, they are the dark and silent face of our society that we are gradually coming to accept. However, within them, they carry the desire for rebellion, their dreams, the lust for life and the words to express all that. Alone at their side, volunteers from charity organizations, a genuine shadow army, work selflessly for an idea of justice and the common good. Their united energies fuel the desire to go on living together and mark out a pathway of hope for all. Cinema's fragile gift is to place us at the heart of these fragments of existence, both offered to our gaze and yet so modest.

2014-03-05 | fr

Education Rebuilt

In 2018 the 1st & 2nd EPA.L. Agia Paraskevi relocates to a new state of the art building after 20+ years of being in an unsuitable and ready to fall apart one. The situation got so bad that the students where literally hanging out with the chickens next to the building and as the principal of the school council told us they actually felt like they themselves where the chickens. The construction of the new building was held up since the original contractor "ran out of money" and thus the building was abandoned mid construction, the building stayed in this stage for more than 5 years where it was looted and vandalized. The situation had reached an impasse and so the students decided to step up and speak directly to the mayor resulting in getting heard by the secondary school administration, so years later a second contractor was hired to complete this project and finally put into operation.

2022-11-07 | el

The Deregistration of the Builders Labourers Federation

Chronicles the industrial action leading up to the deregistration of the Builders Labourers Federation.

1992-01-01 | en

Landfall

Hurricane María abated, the news crews packed up and left Puerto Rico, and the interest of the international community turned elsewhere. What happened next?

2020-04-15 | es

The silent walls

Every city has its secrets, but it is probably inside houses, behind their silent walls, where they are most intense and human. The Alabado House was built in 1671 as part of Quito’s colonial Old City, surviving centuries of earthquakes, poverty and decay. Over the past five years, dozens of manual laborers have been working to restore it. But its miraculous beauty conceals a long and tragic history. For it was the oppressed indigenous masses who built the Old City, the largest in Latin America.

2010-10-17 | en

Secrets of the Empire State Building

2019-12-05 | en

Hilton Hotel Construction

The Hilton Hotel rises from the ashes, surrounded by derelict houses and bomb damaged streets.

1959-09-15 | en

Men at Lunch

This remarkable new documentary explores the story behind one of the most iconic images of the twentieth century: the 1932 photograph of workmen taking their lunch while perched on a girder high above New York City.

2013-02-01 | en

A Powerful Noise

Bookended by call-to-action quotes from Margaret Mead and Mahatma Gandhi, this inspiring documentary follows three extraordinary women -- in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Mali, and Vietnam -- as they lead day-to-day battles against ignorance, poverty, oppression, and ethnic strife.

2008-04-30 | en

16 Acres

The dramatic inside story of the monumental collision of interests at Ground Zero in the decade after 9/11.

2012-09-23 | en

Look at Life: Top People

An overview of high-rise construction activity in London. From the crane operators who build the new sky-scrapers to the tenants who live in the penthouses, this newsreel provides a colorful birds-eye view of London Town.

1960-01-01 | en

À ciel ouvert

Behind the scenes of a large construction site in western Switzerland, we dive into the world of construction where most of the workers are foreigners.

2022-01-21 | de

Druzhba: The Friendship Pipeline

"The Pipeline of the Century -- How Soviet Natural Gas Came to the West" by director Matthias Schmidt shows touching personal memories. The production is a treasure trove of material in which previously unpublished visual material about the construction of the century and its builders can be seen. Writer & Director Matthias Schmidt ; A Co-Production by LOOKSfilm and MDR in Cooperation with ARTE

2021-01-01 | de

Why Fathers Work

Ed Kimble, a structural ironworker, is followed during his workday building a skyscraper.

1969-01-01 | en

If It Don't Fit, Use a Bigger Hammer

Frustrated with their lazy new intern, a trio of offbeat builders decide to teach him a lesson with a series of escalating pranks.

2002-03-07 | de

Ruutana

2001-04-05 | fi

The Murderers Are Among Us

After returning from a concentration camp, Susanne finds an ex-soldier living in her apartment. Together the two try to move past their experiences during WWII.

1946-10-15 | de