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Genre: Culinary


A young woman looks at herself in the mirror in a blue-tiled bathroom. She has clips in her hair and a serious expression.

Dadá [short film] (Dependências)

Luisa Arraes  |   Brazil
Portuguese  
Comedy, Culinary, Social Commentary

A wealthy matriarch’s important work dinner is thrown into disarray when her housekeeper doesn’t show up. When her (and her adult children’s) incompetence in the kitchen becomes harder to hide from their hungry guests, a wacky comedy of errors ensues in this biting and boisterous class satire.

A man and woman stand with their foreheads touching, staring into eachothers eyes.

La Cocina

Alonso Ruizpalacios  |   United States, Mexico
English, Spanish  
Culinary, Drama, Literary Adaptation

An impassioned line cook stirs up chaos that threatens to collapse a frenzied Times Square kitchen in this kaleidoscopic portrait of the American Dream.

A man wearing a apron sits in an empty resturaunt.

Slice of Life: The American Dream. In Former Pizza Huts.

Matthew Salleh  |   United States
English  
Culinary, Social Commentary

Small business owners who have transformed old Pizza Hut franchises present a rich tapestry of the American experience in this delectable documentary.