Social Issues Movies

At the consulting service for immigrants at the Avicenne Hospital in suburban Paris, we observe the sorrow and powerlessness of the immigrants who...

In 1936, the sound film had already been around for a decade. Nevertheless, Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977) made another silent film, "Modern Times",...

A thought provoking short film on Indian farmers told through clay sculptures made from barren farms of the farmers who have committed suicide.

Born June 8, 1964, Frank Matter films four "twins", born the same day as him, but in other latitudes. Interweaving their life stories with rich...

Four adults are detained in their apartments with only each other and a computer for online company. They each come from a different class with...

This feature-length documentary by Alanis Obomsawin examines the plight of Native people who come to Montreal searching for jobs and a better life....

Every day 500 high-tech fishing boats enter Senegalese waters and catch whatever they can find. Every day 15,000 Senegalese wooden pirogues go out...

A homeless man regularly attends a place where children play ball every afternoon. A caring link develops between them which drives him to change his...

What if you got the chance to build a new society from scratch, what would it look like? Located more than 200 km above the polar circle, the Swedish...

A documentary view of an encampment of homeless people on the outskirts of Nashville, Tennessee in the Southern United States.

Hungarian tales around the end of the regime(s).

Social experiment hosted by journalist and presenter Ben Zand in which a group of people come together to try to understand what constitutes sexual...

A documentary on the road that tracks the journey by Georgina, an elderly transgender woman forced to cross the sandy peninsula Guajira, on foot, to...

The film chronicles the life of Waluyo, a confident young puppeteer who is fighting to pursue his career. The various obstacles he went through did...

The story is set in a Maharashtrian village where the rich act in a barbaric manner towards the poor.

Samuel, the owner of a very lucrative technology company, is robbed by a violent attacker named Nathan, whom he recognizes as a former employee....

A man encounters colorful characters while driving a taxi in Papua New Guinea.

A young islamic woman who wants to expose the truth about the government's injustice in a patriarchal society.

Golek Garwo is a matchmaking forum, held monthly vis-a-vis in Yogyakarta. Basri (62), a worker who longed for love and one out of hundreds of...

Using local media footage from the London Borough of Southwark spanning the past 20 years, this documentary discusses complex social issues including...