Migrant Dreams (2016)
- Directed by
- Min Sook Lee
- Genre
- documentary film
- Country
- Canada
- Runtime
- 1h 28m
- Rated
- G
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
This documentary follows Indonesian migrant workers in Ontario farms. It shows the human rights violations they face under Canada's Temporary Foreign Worker Program.
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What happens
Migrant Dreams is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Min Sook Lee and released in 2016. The film profiles human rights violations against migrant workers from Indonesia who were working as farm labourers in Southwestern Ontario under the Temporary Foreign Worker Program. It was Lee's second documentary film about migrant workers in Canada, following 2003's El Contrato. The film premiered at the 2016 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, and was subsequently screened at the 2016 DOXA Documentary Film Festival. It was commercially distributed as a television broadcast, airing September 14, 2016 on TVOntario. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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