Social Issues Movies

In this documentary mosaic of a continued social disintegration, seven filmmakers bring to the screen protagonists and stories that live in an abyss...

The City That God Forgot is a full feature length documentary film about the city of Utica, NY, and its strong willed community and extensive history...

One man challenges corrupt politicians, influencing women to contest the requirement for women in village government.

An old lady lets herself go with the stories of a sprightly old man, sitting next to her. But when she reveals that she is married, he waves her...

An anthology film featuring four tales about the realities of life in Hungary and the Balkans.

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...

Irama Betawi is the name of an ondel-ondel group that still actively busks in Jakarta. Sometimes they busk on the streets. Other times, they are...

Cut off from his loved ones due to the strict COVID-19 lockdown at the long-term care facility where he lives, a quadriplegic rabbi is filmed by his...

Kazuma kills his father in order to protect his mother and younger sister from violence. He begins life at a halfway house with an aim toward social...

After finding some videos she uploaded to YouTube when she was a child, Manuela attempts to follow the trail she herself has left on the Internet. A...

The workers of Safai Karmachari Andolan, led by Roman Magsaysay Award winner activist Bezwada Wilson, are on a mission to eradicate manual...

Avelino Chillarón was 12 or 13 years old when he realized that his surnames and those of his cousins ​​didn't match, so he decided...

A child born deaf enjoys a musical concert through vibrations and a hearing aid, imagining visuals based on what he hears.

SPACED OUT written, edited and directed by Priyakanta Laishram is a movie dedicated to all the people who are on the road to recovery from drug...

Joko Supriyanto is a high school student in Yayasan Pendidikan Anak Luar Biasa (Special Needs Education Foundation) Cepogo, Boyolali--a foundation...

Community First! Village is designed to lift the chronically homeless off the streets of the Austin, TX, offering them a place to call home, helping...

Global pandemics are like prairie thunderstorms. Full of terror and havoc, they eventually pass. Bringing a new baby into the world can also feel...

Zanskar is a remote kingdom in the northwest Indian Himalaya, where local people are snow-bound for six months of the year. About 10,000 Zanskaris...