Entre deux mondes

In August 2012, mineworkers in one of South Africa’s biggest platinum mines began a wildcat strike for better wages. Six days later the police used live ammunition to brutally suppress the strike, killing 34 and injuring many more. Using the point of view of the Marikana miners, Miners Shot Down follows the strike from day one, showing the courageous but isolated fight waged by a group of low-paid workers against the combined forces of the mining company Lonmin, the ANC government and their allies in the National Union of Mineworkers.

Filmmaker Gary Kaunonen of KCC-TV in International Falls just released a new documentary about a pivotal time in Northern Minnesota’s labor history. It’s called “Northern Minnesota’s Labor Wars.” The years 1916 and 1917 brought major labor uprisings in the mines of the Mesabi Iron Range and the lumber camps of the state’s far northern pine forests. These events not only shaped local history, but became vital turning points in the national and international labor movement.

As the Swedish town of Kiruna sinks, Frigga finds herself torn between her family and her job as security chief at the world's largest underground mine.

A cowboy and a bandit face off over possession of a valuable mine.

A European immigrant becomes a master of industry but almost loses his family.

A Kentucky woman whose mine-worker husband is nearly killed in a cave-in, and whose father is slowly dying of black lung disease, joins the picket lines for a long, violent strike.

Strange boy was a child picked up by guangbin when he was young. He was raised, but one day his biological parents found him and took him away. At that time, guangbin was not at home, and there was no address left, only a phone number left. Guangbin has since made a phone call to guangbin every few days, and there is only answering the phone, never replying. One day, he was reminded by the landlord that he met a strange poet who was also a doctor in the villagers' mind. The doctor told him many things he had never heard. He had more questions and seemed to be the answer. After the strange boy returned to the original family, the original family had been broken, and everyone gradually became more and more unfamiliar with him from the joy of his return, until they found the secret of their father, the emergence of the mysterious girl, and the chance encounter with the poet, with a sudden "eclipse Festival" breaking all plans.

Set against the unforgettable beauty of Haida Gwaii (formerly known as the Queen Charlotte Islands), Memories of Earth takes viewers on a journey guided by traces of the past. The film records the meeting of two artistic worlds: that of the Haida, an indigenous people whose cultural life and mythology bespeak their belief in a tangible link between the real and the imaginary, and that of Frédéric Back, a master of animated film and committed humanist, whose works is an appeal to respect all things created. Through the magic of animation, the documentary casts fresh light on the legends and spirituality of the Haida.

Mother's Day special in which celebrities appear with their mothers to relate incidents from their pasts, inspired by the book "Star Mothers" by Georgia Holt, Cher's mom.

Nana Xu travels to the place built by her father as a prisoner during the Cultural Revolution: first a work camp, later a prison, fruit farm and treatment centre. Conversations with last remaining witnesses, where home is still shaped by a repressed past.