"My Friend Omar: The struggles of a Seasonal Worker" follows Québécois-Chilean actor Christian de la Cortina, who, while preparing for his role as Sandro in "5e rang," forms a friendship with Omar, a seasonal Guatemalan worker. This documentary unveils the persistent abuses in some Quebec farms, exposing the shortcomings of a system meant to protect foreign workers during the harvest seasons. It also highlights Omar's solidarity and fight for justice, representing the voice of often invisible workers. Available on CBC Gem : https://gem.cbc.ca/absolutely-canadian/s24e20
A Mexican social activist fearing for his life seeks asylum in the U.S. He finds illegal work on a Vermont dairy farm alongside other undocumented workers. Here he learns that their ambiguous status leaves them vulnerable to the injustice, abuse and cruelty they were escaping from.
A socially awkward and obsessive gamer dwelling in the comforts of his parents’ basement is forced to embark on a quest, to get an extra life. In order to do so, he will have to LVL UP, survive RL and save his cosplaying crush by raiding with his new party of quirky co-workers.
A young entrepreneur starts a marijuana grow-up in his family’s barn in order to save his business and his father’s house from bank repossession. As Vincent falls deeper into the world of crime, he soon realizes his situation grows more brutal and dangerous than he ever imagined.
Three policemen, each working independently from each other, are committed to doing the right thing as they see it. However as they become lost in their fixation to bring certain criminals to justice, their lives intertwined and culminate in an explosive climax.
Salvador Torres works for a corrupt gold mine in the Atacama Desert. He covers up the mine’s crimes and environmental abuses in exchange for money, and covers his own pain over the loss of his parents with alcohol. When his coworker, Alejandro is murdered for being an activist, Salvador’s life changes. He discovers Alejandro’s young daughter hiding. She has with her stolen, classified papers that expose the mine’s criminal activities and environmental abuses, including the truth about Salvador’s own parents. In his effort to help the girl escape to safety across the desert, Salvador confronts the mine that he has spent his life protecting. The journey will be his own salvation.
An eco-thriller with heart, ATACAMA FILES is a blood-pumping ride with a timely environmental message.
Based on some of the most hilarious and authentic anecdotes of a South American immigrant family living in Canada.
Partners in Crime tells the story of an immigrant family from Chile living in the U.S. in the 1980s after escaping political turmoil in their home country. Week after week, Pepe guides his son Christian on how to make it in a foreign country doing odd jobs while enjoying nature and a unique connection to animals.
In the heart of the Congo's treacherous terrain, Zoe Johnson, a determined NGO worker, and Rick Martinez, a reluctant pilot, must navigate a perilous world of deception, greed, and moral reckoning when their mission to save a young boy entangles them in a dangerous web of conflicting interests, leaving them with a fateful choice that could redefine their purpose in a land driven by money and minerals.