Drama explores complex social issues with even more depth and power than documentary. Sometimes eagerness for entertainment values glosses over content; can we entertain, move, and at the same time make the viewer think. How is your own television system surviving between quality and ratings? FOR TOMORROWS THAT SING’s production could equal any commercial TV-movie. Marcel Slivovitz’s world totters when his soviet nephew defects while on tour in Paris. Suspected of complicity, his peers at the French Communist Party reject him. Marcel joins the ranks of those whom history has made sick and bitter. Did you notice? It has a content! MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDRETTE leads us into the enticing and frightening world of a young Pakistani man in London today. As he learns his way around the complex multi-racial society, our eyes open along with his.
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Marcel Slivovitz, a Jewish Communist, is a furrier in Paris in the 1950s. His wife and children are with him, but his sister and his nephew live much farther away, in… -
From UPF
This film was made primarily by young people, some of whom were working in the film industry for the first time. The film is about young people in Great Britain and a…