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This documentary deals with the gradual shift from the family farm to corporation-run farms, with all the ensuing problems and personal hardship. It is an incisive evaluation of what is happening in North American and worldwide agriculture today.

Two roommates in a dystopian world with conflicting beliefs explore the themes of media bias and authoritarianism, through the use of satire. fuelled by subtle ironies and contradictions, that we as a society still accept today.

UCLA Animation Workshop Student Film, Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. Pixilated Black & White Animation. A war between dark and light-colored potatoes ends in the mashing of the potatoes, demonstrating they are the same inside as outside.

In a village in the Ardennes, during the German occupation, finding rations is becoming almost impossible. Clovis, an ordinary labourer, decides to cross the occupied zone to bring back enough potatoes to feed his family. His plan is a success but Clovis rapidly becomes obsessed with storing the precious tubers.

Pavel had a difficult childhood, but he grew up modest and kind. This prevents him from maintaining a relationship with a demanding girl and pushes him to selflessly help people. During the day, he is a realtor selling the house of a candidate for deputy, and at night - an anonymous benefactor and the people's favorite Potato Angel. Pavel also arranges the life of his slacker brother and, it seems, finds a new love. But that same candidate, afraid of losing the election, pretends to be a night hero.

Giorgio and Tito, father and son. A successful journalist and a lazy teenager apparently impossible to understand. Giorgio's dream is to take Tito to the Nasca Hill in Liguria, but Tito prefers to spend his entire day with his group of friends, eating, talking about nothing and playing video games. Until one day when he suddenly informs his father that he would join him in this trip. After a series of accidents and misunderstandings, at the end, somehow father and son will find the way to communicate … or at least they will try.

Schabernack tells the story of Robin, who has to take responsibility for his mentally ill mother at an early age. Together with his little brother Felix, he tries to keep any stress away from her. When the two brothers throw potatoes at their neighbors' windows at night, they are suddenly followed by strangers...

One day you will learn to draw, one day you will have an expensive car, one day you will achieve success - the list of expectations of a father towards his son makes the young boy unable to enjoy everyday life.

1951, Mexico City. After synthesizing the main component of the contraceptive pill, young scientist Luis Miramontes deals with the religious and personal consequences of his groundbreaking invention.

Short film about the Mapuga tribe’s feast of pigs with sweet potatoes.

Having entered the institute, the hero of the film, along with his new comrades, goes to the village "for potatoes". A month spent in the "open air" not only fills the life of a spoiled urban youth with interesting acquaintances and impressions, but also gives him his first love.

The Turów coal mine in Poland has a harmful impact on the environment, also on the Czech side of the border. After the Czech government complained, the Court of Justice of the EU imposed €500K as a daily penalty payment on Poland until the problem is resolved. Thousands of Poles are afraid of the mine being closed and of losing their jobs. Among them is Teresa, who works at the Turów power plant closely connected to the mine. This 50-year-old woman decides to fight the Czechs… in a potato salad competition taking place in a Czech village.

One day, Dutch film maker van der Horst was given her inheritance: 6 square meters, one sixth of a small, wooden house in the Russian countryside where her mother grew up. It was as if life had handed her a card she felt forced to play. She began a journey into the past, back into the childhood of her Russian mother and her five sisters, all of whom struggled with fear, famine and war in Stalin’s Russia; experiences that left them scarred to their very soul. Aliona’s quest into the lives and fate of her family becomes a loving, poignant, and poetic film with Chekhovian characters. Accompanied by the magical animation of acclaimed Italian artist Simone Massi, unimaginable events in the Soviet past are given an immediate charge. Along with the stories of ordinary people living in the small farmhouse, the film maker tells the tale of Soviet terror, immense bravery and a fear that has never left those four walls.

Carne con papas is a "serious humor" short film. Ivón has just been robbed on the street and when she gets on a bus she is assaulted again by Dudamel, a pirate movie salesman. When the driver along with the passengers arrest Dudamel, the weapon falls into the hands of Ivón, who no longer has anything to lose.

1 village, 1.000 tractors, 100.000 tons of cabbages & potatoes each year - which are hardly sold and eventually destroyed. Is there any way out?

The production of cultural meaning, and of value, takes on a number of associations in "Krumpira Krumpira" ("Potatoes, Potatoes"), from 2001. The film pictures the artist selling cakes - a substitute for the standard plebeian foodstuff, bread - in the middle of a deserted, snowy forest landscape.

A commercial promoting artificial fertilizers. Two neighbours, Moc and Malý [Power and Small], grow potatoes, but their yields are different. The one who only fertilizes his field with manure crops has very tiny potatoes but the potatoes of his neighbour - who uses potash for growing - are beautiful and huge.

A factory worker known for his tough attitude and for fighting for workers' rights starts losing credibility when friends and co-workers see him helping a young gay man.

A little girl's innocence is shattered when she takes an unexpected ride in her wealthy family's rolling laundry cart and learns their dark secrets.

An aspiring Hong Kong actor slowly realizes he must pay his dues before achieving success.

During a manned mission to Mars, Astronaut Mark Watney is presumed dead after a fierce storm and left behind by his crew. But Watney has survived and finds himself stranded and alone on the hostile planet. With only meager supplies, he must draw upon his ingenuity, wit and spirit to subsist and find a way to signal to Earth that he is alive.

London is terrorized by a vicious sex killer known as The Necktie Murderer. Following the brutal slaying of his ex-wife, down-on-his-luck Richard Blaney is suspected by the police of being the killer. He goes on the run, determined to prove his innocence.

A young Start-up entrepreneur tries to start importing potato to 17th century Finland. The new class of bourgeoisie is emerging and shaking up the stagnant spirit of the era. But nobody believes in potato, and the Turnip-Sellers Guild decides to squash the disturbance caused by the young entrepreneurs. In the end, the bumpy road of potatoes grows into mythical proportions.

Two lowlifes with active fantasy sex lives deliver potatoes to various restaurants and grocers.

Varda focuses her eye on gleaners: those who scour already-reaped fields for the odd potato or turnip. Her investigation leads from forgotten corners of the French countryside to off-hours at the green markets of Paris, following those who insist on finding a use for that which society has cast off, whether out of necessity or activism.

A traveling trader provides a window into rural life in the Republic of Georgia, where potatoes are currency and ambition is crushed by poverty.

A multi-billion-dollar mining project is launched by the American Newmont Mining Corporation and lays claim to the land belonging to Preuvian highlander Máxima Acuña.

A particularly starchy killer intrudes on a family during their evening dinner.

The life story of a potato, which was born in one of the fields and then was taken to the city along with her other counterparts. Once in the apartment, she oversees the life and atmosphere of the new place. The potatoes meets a knife and falls in love with him at first sight...

A short film made by the Central Office of Information about how to cook Potatoes, with narration from Max Munden.

Two poor farmers spend all their money on a chicken, while waiting for her first egg they slowly start to get the feeling there’s something very wrong with the animal.

Presentation of the different insects which ravage the potato (Colorado beetle, flea beetle, white grub, wire worm, leaf hopper) and the most effective means of repression.

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In this recipe, you will learn how to make crunchy french fries.

Drugged by one of his friends at a party, a young man hallucinates a strange character.

A silent film that traces the journey of a Belgian potato towards its destiny as a fry... in the Brussels Frietmuseum.

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Bacterial diseases are caused by infinitely small beings, called microbes or bacteria, and are accompanied by physiological disorders such as hollow heart, black heart, etc. This documentary presents the main characteristics of these diseases as well as means of repression or prevention.

A short documentary about a small province on the east coast of Canada.

Mondo Psycho director Mad Crampi stars in this cyberpunk shocker about a young junkie who falls prey to a malevolent group of scientists conducting a bizarre experiment on addiction. When heavily tattooed drug-addict Peter Shek stages a daring escape from a top-secret science lab, the scientists use a microchip implant to guide his every move. Now, Peter is being forced to connect various computer components to fresh human organs, affix them to his body, and inject them with drugs to experience a new kind of high. But while the technological buzz delivers three minutes of absolute bliss, Peter must struggle to regain control of his own body.

A group of childhood friends, now in their thirties, reunite at Camp Tamakwa. Only a few of the original campers show up, but they still have a good time reminiscing. The people share experiences and grow while at the camp. They are dismayed to discover that the camp's owner, Unca Lou, is going to close the camp down.

Shelly Prince and her Grandfather have kept a magical creature safely secluded in the backwoods of their small town, but when a hot headed bounty hunter shows up in search of the beast, Shelly has to find a way to keep the animal safe.

Join LO•TI•ON and all her friends as they try to help Frostiana The Snowthem find their carrot nose and have some fun along the way!

Numerous Chicago drag performers strut their stuff to Crystal Waters' "100% Pure Love".

A high school girl, Yu Shan, has long harbored a crush on her classmate, Pin Lun. She finds satisfaction in stealing his small belongings, as this gives her a sense of possession. She knows Pin Lun's weekly schedule, including when he practices piano. Once, Yu Shan sneaked into the music classroom ahead of time, and reveled in the pleasure of accompanying Pin Lun from a close distance as he played the piano.

Brought to you by Najmudeen Ouerhani and Sweet Potato Productions, Detective Pearson is on the hunt for The Maniac in this elusive physiological thriller. The catch? The detective knows where The Maniac is from the very beginning...

The long-awaited sequel to Jesus (2019)