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Henry (Andrey Pfening) travels to a small town to run an errand for his rock collector father. The task quickly grows into a sprawling adventure that catches the attention of the wealthy heiress Ruby (Juliana Frick) and the ambitious newspaper reporter Clark (Dashiell Hillman) in a completely hand built, re-imagined 1960s dark fairy tale.

A haunting evocation of the aftermath of the explosion at Chernobyl, 25 years on. This visually stunning road movie takes the spectator on a bleak journey from the shores of the Black Sea to the frozen heart of Chernobyl, passing through desolate, snowy landscapes, littered with abandoned villages. Squatting in this icy wasteland, the ghostly sarcophagus of Reactor No.4 is a constant reminder of the threat still lurking below. Accompanied by testimony from a group of unseen veterans of the disaster, Precarious bears witness to both the folly and resilience of humans and to nature's fragility.

Miss Black General is the villainous leader of RX, a secret organization bent on world-domination. Unfortunately, Miss Black General also has a huge crush on Brave Man, a costumed superhero dedicated to foiling RX's evil schemes, and she often mistakes his violent heroics for an overly enthusiastic form of flirtation. So how exactly is she going to to conquer the world when she can't even conquer her own feelings? And how will Brave Man respond to this odd twist?

The accountant Arturo De Fanti has problems in the bank because he threatens to be hunted. But he does not import of this troubles, because he hopes to find comfort with his lover.

A Precarious State was born out of a question: What is really happening in Minnesota today (or these past few years)? The answers we’ve uncovered go beyond headlines, beyond the pandemic, to the very future of our community. This new documentary uncovers what’s really happening in Minneapolis & St. Paul.

Dioni, like every day, is late for work. His boss already warned him that if this happened again, he would leave him on the street. Someone is going to have to run if he wants to get paid this month...

Four stories of ordinary flexibility: Dora is a television intern whose ideas are stolen, Franco is an aspiring writer who works as a financial agent for a living, Mario is a lawyer waiting to become a partner in a law firm, and Marta investigates on behalf of Ixtat. Watching over them all is San Precario, a boxer who died by mistake, delegated to archiving the prayers of the precarious.

A stereoscopic view of a suburban backyard.

This sensitive and clear-eyed documentary accompanies five women at the edge of the labor market as they grapple with the compounded pressures of gender inequality and economic insecurity. Their unending work mopping, cutting, cleaning, folding, cooking, sorting, and calculating highlights the overlap of first, second, and third shifts for women, and situates the diffuse transformation of proletariat into precariat at the level of daily life. One of the key works by journalist and engaged documentarian Marcel Trillat. Although he passed away in 2020, his kindness, warmth, and generosity will not be forgotten.

“They were more or less subjective camera films.The camera was my eye, involved in simple daily sorts of activities. One part was colour and one part was black and white.” (Lost?)

An English expat realizes his visa has run out and will be deported in two weeks; his only solution is to give up his kidney to Eva in exchange for marriage and permanent residency.

Set on location in Libya, Italy and Greece during 2015-2016 at the height of the Mediterranean migration crisis, Precarious Trajectories focuses on the perilous sea crossings that hundreds of thousands of refugees have undertaken in recent years in order to arrive at what they hope will be the safer shores of Europe through the eyes of Ruha from Syria and Ahmed from Somalia.

A documentary in which the director, a longtime precarious contract teacher, lifts the curtain on higher education's dirty little secret. He travels Canada to capture the experience of precarity and the fight against the exploitation of contract faculty in higher ed. The film tells the stories and struggles of a few compelling characters and groups, while examining the issue of precarious work. Subtitles available in English, French, Spanish.

Precarious Inhabitants explores coexistence and transformation among humans, artificial intelligence, animals, and other organic or synthetic forms. The video unfolds as a dialogue between a human and a zoomorphic AI being, each examining the other’s roots, traces, and intentions. At times they experience unease and a sense of threat, yet moments of recognition and mutual understanding occasionally emerge. In these brief encounters, the fear of invasion dissolves, giving way to the possibility of a shared, interdependent ecosystem.

A third of Europeans live in economic insecurity: Zero hours contracts, the fear of redundancy and stagnating wages have brought more and more people into poverty and precariousness and provided fertile conditions for the political extremes. This documentary focuses on the new working poor, the precariat.

France: 2020s. Piotr, a young Polish immigrant stuck in a string of odd jobs, crosses paths with Stefano, a burly mover. Little did Piotr know, this encounter would soon draw him into the eerie world of nighttime fighting.

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"Adrift (through the female precariousness circuits)" (2003) is a documentary by the "Precarias adrift" collective, a video of snapshots and collages about the precariousness of existence said in feminine. An experimentation of choral and unfinished narration, in its own name, in search of common names that speak of our precariousness and mobility, but that speak of them far from fetishes and icons: that tell what bodies, times and spaces they are made of.