Bananas

The adorable little VW helps its owners break up a counterfeiting ring in Mexico.

A detective searches for the perfect sweater.

um... er.. it's about... bananas i guess.

For consumers, bananas are a delicious and nutritious start to the day, a healthy snack and a fixture in our fruit bowls. For millions of residents in the banana lands, the production of bananas means social upheaval, violence and pesticide poisoning. Banana Land explores the origins of these disparate realities, and opens the conversation on how workers, producers and consumers can address this disconnect.

A propaganda short commissioned by the United Fruit Company on the benefits they bring to Central America, such as creating jobs and delivering educational opportunities, which is something the Soviet Union could never understand.

Juan “Accidentes” Dominguez is on his biggest case ever. On behalf of twelve Nicaraguan banana workers he is tackling Dole Food in a ground-breaking legal battle for their use of a banned pesticide that was known by the company to cause sterility. Can he beat the giant, or will the corporation get away with it?

Why is the price of a banana from Central America only a third of that of an apple from Michigan? This documentary attempts to answer that question by examining the supply chain between Central America and the US, and uncovering the violence that has enabled the banana industry for more than a century.

Gardons la banane !

Within a banana plantation and a botanic garden, a panel of botanic experts are challenged to discuss contemporary trends in gardening, scientific classification, and monocultural crops by an astute interviewer. The hidden politics of the experts’ positions are uncomfortably exposed and confronted with reality, as they render themselves suspicious of their own language.

Billig. Billiger. Banane

Sam Smith a lonely and unemployed man tries his best to stay positive while hoping he gets his dream job.

A pair of robbers break into a house, expecting to snatch a quick buck. What they find is far less appetizing.

Experimental scientist Douglas, finds himself trapped inside a 30-minute time loop when he accidentally breaks his new time machine prototype. Stuck inside a hotel room, Douglas must try to break free and keep his sanity in the process.

Mestre dos Cucas is a comedy starring Leandro Hassum that has as its backdrop the electrifying emotions of a cooking competition.

In the film, actor Leandro Hassum plays lawyer Michelle Barbieri, known as Mike. The company where he works is bought by an office that decides to keep only women in its positions. However, the character is not fired, since, due to her name, the HR department believes that she is a woman. The character then starts dressing in women's clothing to stay in his job.

A middle aged woman starts cleaning up her deceased father's house when she discovers a hidden present for her from her father, a man-sized robotic elf.

Encuentro Letal

Romantic havoc ensues in the town of Bath when Sir Anthony arrives to arrange the marriage of his son Captain Jack Absolute to the wealthy Lydia Languish. Jack and Lydia are already in love, but because of Lydia's obsession with romantic novels, Jack has disguised himself as a poor officer named Ensign Beverly and he is only one of Lydia's many suitors.

A punk band decides to hire a keyboard player in order to change their sound, despite the fact that this talented musician has Down Syndrome.

Fang Xiuying (played by Li Lan) is a female worker in a textile workshop, she and her boyfriend Zeng Qiang (played by Mao Yongming) have been in love for many years, and they plan to get married after waiting for their work unit to assign them a house. Fang Xiuying is a very kind and helpful girl, but no good deed goes unpunished, and her good-hearted nature is challenged at every turn by bad luck and the bad intentions of others.