Topic: Great Recession

Direction Lenny Abrahamson · Hettie Macdonald

Cast Daisy Edgar-Jones · Paul Mescal · Sarah Greene · Olga Wehrly

Synopsis TV Miniseries (2020). 12 Episodes. Marianne (Daisy Edgar-Jones) and Connell (Paul Mescal) are two young people navigating adulthood in post-financial crash Ireland. An adaptation of Sally Rooney’s award-winning novel, she was described as “the first great millennial author” by the...

Direction Aleix Saló

Synopsis "Españistan" explains the troubles of the Spanish economy.

Direction Charles Ferguson

Cast Gylfi Zoega · Andri Snær Magnasson · Sigridur Benediktsdottir · Paul Volcker

Synopsis From Academy Award nominated filmmaker, Charles Ferguson (“No End In Sight”), comes INSIDE JOB, the first film to expose the shocking truth behind the economic crisis of 2008. The global financial meltdown, at a cost of over $20 trillion, resulted...

Direction Peter D. Hutchison · Kelly Nyks · Jared P. Scott

Cast Noam Chomsky

Synopsis Noam Chomsky, widely regarded as the most important intellectual alive, speaks about the deliberate concentration of wealth and power in the hands of a select few, the death of the middle class, and swan song of functioning democracy.

Direction Peter Joseph

Synopsis Zeitgeist: Moving Forward, by director Peter Joseph, is a feature length documentary work which presents a case for a transition out of the current socio-economic monetary paradigm which governs the entire world society. This subject matter transcends the issues of...

Direction Marcos M. Merino

Synopsis More than 4,000 miners in Asturias go on strike indefinitely in protest at government cuts and organise daily actions: they mount roadblocks, hold sit-ins at 700 m beneath the surface and walk 500 km to Madrid… But now everything has...

Direction Aris Chatzistefanou · Katerina Kitidi

Synopsis Seeks the causes of the debt crisis and proposes solutions.

Direction Aris Chatzistefanou · Katerina Kitidi

Cast Naomi Klein · Ken Loach · Slavoj Žižek

Synopsis The creators of Debtocracy, analyze the shifting of state assets to private hands. They travel round the world gathering data on privatization and search for clues on the day after Greece's massive privatization program.

Direction David Mackenzie

Cast Jeff Bridges · Chris Pine · Ben Foster · Gil Birmingham

Synopsis A divorced dad and his ex-con brother resort to a desperate scheme in order to save their family's farm in West Texas. In a story where the Old West meets the New West, two brothers - Toby (Chris Pine), a...

Direction Andrey Zvyagintsev

Cast Aleksey Serebryakov · Vladimir Vdovichenkov · Elena Lyadova · Anna Ukolova

Synopsis A present day social drama spanning multiple characters about the human insecurity in a "new country" which gradually unwinds to a mythological scale concerning the human condition on earth entirely.

Direction Basil Gelpke · Reto Caduff · Raymond McCormack

Synopsis Enlighten yourself to the wonders of oil, Earth's swiftly diminishing non-renewable resource. Produced and directed by award-winning European journalists and filmmakers Basil Gelpke and Ray McCormack, this documentary explores the past, present and future of oil through archival news footage...

Direction Aleix Saló

Direction Álvaro Toepke

Synopsis Documentary which collects a series of interviews with health and research experts and opinion leaders from all over the world, critically debating about the current obsolete model to obtain pharmaceutical drugs and the health consequences for citizens in both developing...

Direction Sean Baker

Cast Brooklynn Prince · Willem Dafoe · Bria Vinaite · Caleb Landry Jones

Synopsis Revolves around a 6-year-old girl and her friends whose summer break is filled with adventure while their parents and the adults around them struggle with hard times.

Direction Martin Borgs

Cast Johan Norberg

Synopsis In times of crisis people seek strong leaders and simple solutions. But what happens when their solutions are identical to the mistakes that caused the very crisis? 'Overdose' is the story of the greatest economic crisis of our age -...

Direction Fernand Melgar

Cast David Gueja · Rebecca Gueja · Calin Camara · Veta Camara

Synopsis One winter in an emergency shelter for the homeless in Lausanne. Every night, the same ritual plays out at the door to this unassuming basement: a dramatic dash for the entrance, a ruckus sometimes occasioning violent altercations. The staff has...

Direction Sílvia Munt

Synopsis The instability generated by the current economic recession affects us on a daily basis. Yet the stark figures actually say very little of the actual suffering of the people under these circumstances and they speak even less of the changes...

Direction Jacob Kornbluth

Synopsis In this timely and entertaining documentary, noted economic-policy expert Robert Reich distills the topic of widening income inequality, and addresses the question of what effects this increasing gap has on our economy and our democracy.

Direction Miguel Gomes

Cast Crista Alfaiate · João Pedro Bénard · Isabel Muñoz Cardoso · Margarida Carpinteiro

Synopsis A murderer on the run from authorities becomes a folk hero in the second instalment of this surreal epic about the lives of ordinary people in austerity-stricken, contemporary Portugal. Elsewhere, a trial involving stolen cows turns farcical and a dog...

Direction Chris Smith

Cast Michael Ruppert

Synopsis A documentary on Michael Ruppert, a police officer turned independent reporter who predicted the current financial crisis in his self-published newsletter, From the Wilderness.