Bananas

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

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

A thriller about a killer banana.

A detective searches for the perfect sweater.

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.

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.

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.

Gardons la banane !

Billig. Billiger. 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.

Tian Dazhi is an ordinary employee of a design company. He graduated from civil engineering, but he is doing the bottom line of the company: delivering water, repairing water and electricity, repairing air conditioners... and is often excluded by colleagues. One day, because he was accidentally appreciated by the beautiful boss who just took office, he was transferred to the design department, and was frequently taken care of by the beautiful boss. Just when he thought he would start a relationship with the beautiful boss, he found out that the beautiful boss had deceived him...

Suddenly catapulted into high society, a young woman who lacks a bit of finesse tries to integrate into her new surroundings.

Youssef Salem, 45, has always managed to miss his writing career. But the trouble begins when his new novel becomes a success because Youssef couldn't help but be inspired by his own, for better or worse. He must now avoid at all costs that his book falls into the hands of his family.

The events take place in a fantasy framework around a disassembled family whose members only care about money, a creature from the planet Mercury comes to it that meets the requests of each individual for the family individually on the condition that he is repaired and his family is circled to become an ideal family to follow.

Ella's unique designs inspire publishing mogul Derek to include plussized fashion in his magazine. It's not long before Derek realizes that Ella's influence reaches far beyond the catwalk.

Madhav Sunnipenta returns to his homeland from Australia in search of the perfect bride. He hires a marriage bureau that arranges three match-making dates for him, with women from three different backgrounds. The marriage bureau’s owner sends her daughter Thupakula Satyabhama to pick up and accompany him to these dates. The two fall in love during this one-day trip but destiny has other plans for them.