Sugar Mill
Seasonal workers at a remote sugar factory must uncover the source of a vengeful demon kingdom’s wrath before its supernatural terror claims their lives.
Joseph Zobel, l'Enfant de la Rue Cases-Nègres
Summer of the Seventeenth Doll
Two Australian sugarcane cutters spend their annual five-month vacations in Sydney with their mistresses.
Dragonard
In 1747, a handsome but rebellious Scotsman named Richard Abdee is auctioned off as a slave on a Caribbean island controlled by French and British sugar-planters. When caught having sex with his owner's wife, Abdee is given 100 lashes with the dreaded "dragonard" whip. This sentence is meant to be fatal but Abdee survives and later joins in a slave revolt which puts an end to the island's era of savage whippings.
Sugar Island
An unwanted pregnancy triggers the journey into adulthood for Makenya, a Dominican-Haitian teenager who lives in the Batey, a community surrounded by sugarcane fields.
Les 16 de Basse-Pointe
Land Rush
A partnership between the Government of Mali and an American agricultural investor may see 200-square kilometers of Malian land transformed into a large-scale sugar cane plantation. Land Rush documents the hopes, fears, wishes, and demands of small-scale subsistence farmers in the region who look to benefit, or lose out, from the deal.
The Rabbit Hunt
Every weekend, seventeen year old Chris and his family hunt rabbits during sugarcane field burning and harvesting in the Florida Everglades. The film records a tradition by which migrant farm workers in the communities surrounding Lake Okeechobee have been hunting and preparing rabbits since the early 1900s.
A verdade do gato
Cane Sugar
US Dept of Agriculture film that shows how cane sugar is harvested and processed for sale.