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- In a factory bunker on the outskirts of Krakow, a group of punk outsiders live by their own rules, bobbing their heads to the sound of their favorite bands while hand stitching leather boots labeled "hand stitched in Poland." The crisp charcoal-like images are framed and edited to vibrate along with the punk rock music that fills the workspace during the day and fuels the parties at night. This unique boot factory shows that rock and roll can still represent real resistance. The camera moves discreetly, always immersed in the events. Extreme close-ups of the leather and of the scars on the flesh are tactile, tangible and touchable. Cult director Kowalski reveals the simmering tension in the bootmakers' lives and the releases they find in their work and music. The images confront us directly, the music intrusive, scenes gather speed and tumble forward. Nevertheless the apparent spontaneity of the pictures conceals a real mastery of cinematic techniques. The camera follows their lives first showing the mythical aspect of the enterprise but then a harsher reality.
- A town in an ecologically pristine area of Poland learns that Chevron plans to build a shale gas well in the village. After learning of its potential dangers, residents fight government officials and the company to keep the town clean.
- Flitting between images from a film by Flaherty and others besides, on an oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico, Kowalski ponders the role of these images taken from the Internet.
- Ken Metoxen is Native American. He is 55 years old and has always lived in a reservation in the north of the United States. A lively man, he nurtures a secret; on a trip to Paris, the 'city of light', he hopes to remake 'An American in Paris' in the rough areas along the roads of the capital, busy with homeless people and migrants from all around the world.
- Lech Kowalski returns to Utica (New York), where he grew up. He decides to document the struggles of his fellow citizens by offering to pay to hear their stories.
- French auto workers fight to hold on to their jobs before their company is either liquidated or severely scaled down.