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Language
English
Description
College-bound romantic Daniel Bae and Jamaica-born pragmatist Natasha Kingsley meet, and fall for each other, over one magical day amidst the fervor and flurry of New York City. Sparks immediately fly between these two strangers, who might never have met had fate not given them a little push. But will fate be enough to take these teens from star-crossed to lucky in love?
2) Samba
Language
Français
Description
A richly entertaining chronicle of an undocumented kitchen worker battling deportation from his adopted home in Paris.
3) Amira & Sam
Series
Drafthouse Films volume no. 29
Language
English
Description
To help adjust to coming home from war, Sam Seneca, a former Green Beret, takes a stab at a life-long dream: stand-up comedy. He also lands a high-paying job working for a Wall Street firm, run by his cousin Charlie. Amira fled Iraq after her brother was killed by U.S. soldiers. She's an illegal immigrant, living with her uncle Bassam, who was Sam's interpreter. Amira has a run-in with the police, so Sam takes her under his wing. Despite their differences,...
Language
Polish
Description
Beyond the steppes-tells the story of a woman's forced journey to the steppes of Central Asia. Nina, a young Polish woman, is deported with her baby by the Soviet Army in 1940, to the deep hostile lands of the USSR. She has to work in a sovkhoz under the control of the Russian political police. When her child becomes ill, she leaves on a search to find medications with a group of Kazakh nomads. The film draws the intimate and personal experience of...
5) Up in smoke
Language
English
Description
"Warning: For 40 years, this film may have caused uncontrollable laughter, blurry vision, and a strange sense of euphoria. Two buds travel from Mexico to Los Angeles, unaware that the van they are driving is made entirely from marijuana. With herb in the air and the police on their tail, it's a joint effort that sparks laughs, pushes boundaries, and crosses borders"--Container.
Language
English
Description
A former Britpop rocker is living a numb existence and working on an organic farm just outside LA. By day he goes to a farmer's market to sell produce and by night he drinks himself into a stupor. Drinking one night he gets pulled over for a DUI that dredges up a past drug offense and threatens him with deportation.
7) Up in smoke
Language
English
Formats
Description
Cheech and Chong make their film debut in this riotous rock'n'roll comedy, bringing with them the same madness, lifestyles, and sketches that sold over 10 million records in the early '70s.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A docu-thriller that tells the true story of young immigrants who are detained by Border Patrol and thrown into a shadowy for-profit detention center on purpose. Marco and Viri are members of the National Immigrant Youth Alliance, a group of radical DREAMers who are on a mission to stop unjust deportations. And the best places to stop deportations, they believe, is in detention. However, when Marco and Viri attempt a daring reverse prison break,'...
10) Simmer
Language
English
Description
When Chef Hernandez finds out his family will be deported if he doesn't pay $60,000 in government-imposed fees, he turns to his successful restaurateur boss who offers him a questionable opportunity to earn the money before time runs out.