O Trabalho Não É Mercadoria

An interview by Raquel Varela with Alain Supiot, one of the world's leading figures in labor law, social rights and legal philosophy.

O Mercador do Efêmero

Captive Market

After a happily married couple running a hot spring resort are awakened to their sadomasochistic desires, their relationship will never be the same.

The Market

In a slum in Chennai, India, a young mother of two, wants to sell her kidney so she can pay off the crippling debts of her family. If she sells Hema will be the fifth member of her family to sell a kidney for an amount t

O Mercador

Short film about the son of a merchant and how he lives in relation to it.

Push

Housing prices are skyrocketing in cities around the world. Incomes are not. PUSH sheds light on a new kind of faceless landlord, our increasingly unliveable cities and an escalating crisis that has an effect on us all.

Border Incident

The story concerns two agents, one Mexican (PJF) and one American, who are tasked to stop the smuggling of Mexican migrant workers across the border to California. The two agents go undercover, one as a poor migrant.

Thieves' Highway

Nick Garcos comes back from his tour of duty in World War II planning to settle down with his girlfriend, Polly Faber. He learns, however, that his father was recently beaten and burglarized by mob-connected trucker Mike

Coal Market (with Camels)

In a square, men wait with camels loaded with barrels.

Silk Road

Philosophical twenty-something Ross Ulbricht creates Silk Road, a dark net website that sells drugs, while DEA agent Rick Bowden goes undercover to bring him down.

White Skin on the Black Market

In the Orient, oil sheikhs request new girls. The relevant brothel owners realize that there is a shortage among them. They press the morse key in the direction of Europe. Their liaison men in Hamburg roam pubs and the p

Girls Marked Danger

In Genoa, amongst the underclass living on the fringes of the law, Machedi organises the trafficking of women, to be exploited and sent off to who knows where. One of these women is Alda, who has evaded the ring once, bu

Equity

Senior investment banker Naomi Bishop’s world of high-power big money is brutal and fierce, and one she thrives in. When a controversial IPO threatens the fragile balance of power and confidentiality, Naomi finds herself

The Measure of a Man

At the age of 51 and after 20 months on unemployment, Thierry starts a new job that soon brings him face to face with a moral dilemma. How much is he willing to accept to keep his job?

Girls For Sale!

A nightclub in Buenos Aires is advertising for blonde women for glamorous jobs.

Merchants of Doubt

Spin doctors spread misinformation and confusion among American citizens to delay progress on such important issues as global climate change.

AI and the Art Market

Could an algorithm be able to authenticate masterpieces more reliably than human experts? And is it possible to create new painting from a long-dead master? This documentary explores the upheavals caused by the arrival o

The Merchant of Venice

Venice, 1596. Bassanio begs his friend Antonio, a prosperous merchant, to lend him a large sum of money so that he can woo Portia, a very wealthy heiress; but Antonio has invested his fortune abroad, so they turn to Shyl

The Long, Hot Summer

Accused barn burner and conman Ben Quick arrives in a small Mississippi town and quickly ingratiates himself with its richest family, the Varners.

The Most Precious of Cargoes

Once upon a time, a poor woodcutter and his wife lived in a great forest. Cold, hunger, poverty, and a war raging all around them meant their lives were very hard. One day, the woodcutter's wife rescues a baby. A baby g