The Penny War

APPROPIATE

1985 / 85min.

Rating0

Genres

Documentary

Synopsis

Drivers of urban public transport in Bogotá do not receive a fixed salary¸ only a percentage per passenger picked up. Through the testimony of two champions of this daily war¸ an unpleasant daily life is shown¸ distressing and dangerous¸ both for the users and for the drivers themselves los and from which the only ones who benefit are the great transport entrepreneurs¸ true architects of a bloody war in which the State is hardly an indolent spectator.

Directors

Actors

Similar

Quem Precisa de Identidade?

Every day they have to fight to exist. Immigrants and Afro-descendants in Brazil - one of the most racist countries in the world - move to overcome th

2020

0.0

Unprovoked: A Creative Process

Artist Taylor Denise sets out to make her first painting, which also happens to be her largest work to-date. As she embarks on this creative process o

2021

10.0

Tomorrow's Power

Tomorrow’s Power is a feature length documentary that showcases three communities around the world and their responses to economic and environmental e

2017

0.0

La Negociación

2018

8.0

A Bus - For Us

After repeated attempts to obtain service from the public transportation authorities, these suburban Ottawa residents finally decided to do it themsel

1972

0.0

A Banishment, A Refuge

Pato, is a woman who must face her way, while struggling with the memory of a miscarriage. Lupita is a teenager looking for her place in the world.

2024

0.0

Flamboyants

The trajectory of flamboyant bodies that expose themselves in their social networks, whether artistic or not, and use these spaces freely.

2021

4.0

Quijote

As a child, Jairo William Gutiérrez traded a few onions for a ticket to the circus and from then on he only wanted to be an actor and playwright. Toda

2012

7.0

Italo Disco: The Sparkling Sound of the 80s

The history of italo disco, a musical genre that conquered the world during the incredible eighties, the most cybernetic decade; a style that was not

2021

8.5

What Killed the Roman Empire?

Why did the Roman Empire, which dominated Europe and the Mediterranean for five centuries, inexorably weaken until it disappeared? Archaeologists, spe

2022

7.9

When Multinationals Attack Nation States

In autumn 2016, demonstrations sprang up all over Europe against the CETA free-trade agreement between the European Union and Canada. The reason? An o

2016

7.0

No Māori Allowed

When an academic unearths a forgotten history, residents of the small township of Pukekohe, including kaumātua who have never told their personal stor

2022

8.0

The End of Suburbia: Oil Depletion and the Collapse of the American Dream

Since World War II North Americans have invested much of their newfound wealth in suburbia. It has promised a sense of space, affordability, family li

2004

7.2

Two Pandemics

Seven Asian-Americans discuss their experiences with racism and the spike in Asian-directed hate crimes as a result of COVID-19.

2021

0.0

Uncomfortably Comfortable

In the spring of 2018, the filmmaker Maria Petschnig befriended Marc who at that time was living in his car in Brooklyn for more than a year, while al

2021

0.0

À la recherche de la jeunesse perdue

What if science could reverse the aging process? Follow the researchers as they decipher these mechanisms, with the promise of finding the elixir of y

2022

7.0

Raising Bertie

Raising Bertie is a longitudinal documentary feature following three young African American boys over the course of six years as they grow into adulth

2017

9.0