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I'm looking for a film (not a specific film, but a film suggestion) on the subject of hunger or poverty or living conditions, preferably (?) in a third-world country .. Seems as if there have been some award-winners in the last few years from Afghanistan, Iran, ... but I don't know any titles. ..( And something I can find on video...)

.. or even a hollywood-like film would be OK, if the subject were appropriate..

Thanks-

― dave225 (Dave225), Monday, 16 February 2004 03:09 (twenty-two years ago)

city of god?

― michael bott, Monday, 16 February 2004 03:11 (twenty-two years ago)

I've outsourced this answer from the greatest film knowledge I know:

bandit queen from india is quite good. about oppression of women and the poverty
stricken in india, a real life-based story about how one women rises up against
it. cyclo, from vietnam is great. anything by the director abbas kiarostami from
iran would be in that area as well.

― ipsofacto (ipsofacto), Monday, 16 February 2004 03:30 (twenty-two years ago)

If you are looking for something really depicting the tragedy of poverty and such you might want to try Pixote. It's a film about homeless children in detention centers of Brazil. It's amazingly powerful. It follows the life of one of the children in the home who is played by a boy who really was an impoverished child. I would recommend this highly if this is what you are looking for.

― Laszlo Kovacs (Laszlo Kovacs), Monday, 16 February 2004 05:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Sugar Cane Alley is about life in shanty-town Martinique in the 30s.

― Colin Beckett (Colin Beckett), Monday, 16 February 2004 05:24 (twenty-two years ago)

'In The World' -- Michael Winterbottom. Award-winning (as of last night) British film abt Afghan refugees making their way from Pakistan to London.

― ENRQ (Enrique), Monday, 16 February 2004 09:19 (twenty-two years ago)

gotta see that winterbottom movie!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 16 February 2004 10:02 (twenty-two years ago)

also, cybele has a good suggestion but I forget the name

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 16 February 2004 10:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh god there is this movie from Uganda called "City of the wretched infants". Its about a group of AIDs infected orphans who live in a garbage dump. It is absolutely the best movie I've ever seem about the plight of the oppressed. I felt guilty for days after watching it.

― Maxine Blanco, Monday, 16 February 2004 10:46 (twenty-two years ago)

DAYS! Wow, that's powerful stuff.

― Pete (Pete), Monday, 16 February 2004 10:49 (twenty-two years ago)

hahaha. er, oddly I can't think of any Iranian films about poverty per se.

― NRK (Enrique), Monday, 16 February 2004 10:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Great suggestions - I'm going to see if I can find copies of any of them. Thanks. Keep suggesting, if you can...

― dave225 (Dave225), Monday, 16 February 2004 13:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Is Newcastle third world? If so then Billy Elliot. That one had the missus greeting.

― Nutty Nigel (Nutty Nigel), Monday, 16 February 2004 13:33 (twenty-two years ago)

six years pass...

So my book club is reading The Windup Bird Chronicles and I keep being reminded of this short japanese animated film I saw (I think online) that was basically a very unromantic time-lapse look at a relationship that gradually gets more and more surreal.

Pretty sure it was entirely black and white. And possibly named after the girl. Anyone know wtf I am thinking of?

― bnw, Tuesday, 20 July 2010 03:38 (fifteen years ago)

Not quite:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eFzJge-2vU

― ὑστέρησις (Sanpaku), Tuesday, 20 July 2010 05:50 (fifteen years ago)

It's not very surreal, but possibly Makoto Shinkai's She and Her Cat? Short, b&w, has "she" in the title...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqJKGkQSRa8

― Bill A, Tuesday, 20 July 2010 07:13 (fifteen years ago)

that is close! I don't think it had any narration or much, if any, dialog though.

― bnw, Tuesday, 20 July 2010 22:36 (fifteen years ago)

one month passes...

Anyone know of a 1980s post-apocalypic movie for kids? All I can remember is, it's a 'last people left alive' kind of scenario; one of the kids keeps on getting told to look before he crosses the road even though there's obviously no more traffic; he's also trying to beat someone's high score on a videogame; and at the end he nearly gets run over by a car with the same initials on the licence plate as on the high score table.

― ledge, Sunday, 22 August 2010 10:16 (fifteen years ago)

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