Social Issues Movies

Álex and Virginia, a couple planning to get married, buy an apartment located in a building under construction. When there are only a few...

A portrait of Rita, who claims that her mother was never a mother for her. Rita gives birth to her own five children and forces her mother to take...

This short documentary film is a fascinating portrait of urban and rural Quebec in the late 1960s, as the province entered modernity. The collective...

Golf never wanted a brother. Bank just wanted to be loved. What grew between them changed both boys forever.

The Oil in My Blood, written as a fable to my daughter Mar, reimagines an oil platform as a sea monster confronting a mermaid. It reflects on...

In a decaying Soviet-era retirement home, a vibrant group of elders cling to life by staging Shakespeare. Yet loneliness lingers beyond the...

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...

A historical perspective to understand Neoliberalism and to understand why this ideology today so profoundly influences the choices of our...

Harsha, a multi-millionaire guy who has everything but there is something else he's looking for and in the process he adopts a complete village...

Go behind the scenes and around the world with the "Sense8" cast and crew in this in-depth look at how the hit series is made.

25-year-old philosophy major Marta faces the ugly truth for many young Italians — a complete lack of career opportunities. While babysitting...

In the age of social media, nearly every day brings a new eruption of outrage. While people have always found something to be offended by, their...

New York-set comedy about a group of immigrants who have become hostage to their life choices.

This film illustrates the struggles of Canadian prairies women to achieve a more just and humane society within the farm movement and at large....

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...

Shun and Nagisa first meet and fall in love during their first year of high school. While Shun is graduating from university, Nagisa tells him that...

Five years apart, they reunite as lovers, but when family-demands force Xiao Chen to marry, Lu Feng feels betrayed—and vows revenge.

The documentary team follows two happiness agents in their forties who spend a month and a half on the road twice a year, going door-to-door with...

In 2016, an album containing 250 previously unseen photos of Nazi officials was discovered in the USA by Stephan Hördler, a prominent Holocaust...

In Casablanca, a group of filmmakers conduct discussions with people about their expectations of, and aspirations for, the emerging Moroccan national...