Films A-Z

Day after the Long Night

Po dlouhé noci den
Tomáš Kudrna / Czech Republic, Germany / 2011 / 89 min.

Czech Libuše Audrlická, Polish Barbara Müller, and Ukrainian Inna Klimenková were three women out of a total of 13 million people who were employed as forced labour in the Third Reich during the Second World War. For the most part, monotonous work in ammunition factories or in agriculture represented ...

Dish: Women, Waitressing & The Art of Service

Dish: Women, Waitressing & The Art of Service
Maya Gallus / Canada / 2010 / 68 min.

There are far more waitresses in the world than waiters. Why is that? Why do longdistance truckers want women to wait on them? By contrast, why are waiters more common in upscale restaurants? Why do Japanese men like playing a game of master and maid with waitresses? And why do some women work at topless ...

Draquila - Italy Trembles

Draquila – L’Italia che trema
Sabina Guzzanti / Italy / 2010 / 97 min.

In 2009, at a time when Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi's popularity was rapidly declining, the Italian town of Aquila suffered a devastating earthquake, which buried hundreds of people and left many thousands more homeless. The Italian prime minister immediately seized the opportunity, and ...