Social Issues Movies

Unemotional, restrained cinematographic poem, situated in a wintry and poor suburb of Tehran. A man is dismissed and his lack of prospects for the...

A group of office employees find themselves in a fight for survival against a ruthless local gang after a long week of work.

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

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

A gripping tale of two young people from contrasting worlds who are thrust together by a twist of fate. A man from Nepal's Terai plains accidentally...

Travel the longest railway in the world. Stories and destinies of ordinary Russians who met by chance on the Moscow-Vladivostok train. A kaleidoscope...

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...

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

Quique el Cuajo, a hustler with half a body affected by cerebral palsy, joins forces with his friend Adolfo, a young mulatto, to create a music...

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 journey through Greece and Europe’s past and recent history: from the Second World War to the current crisis. It is a historical documentary,...

A group of 10 students struggles with poverty and develop hopes for the future in Gantong Village on the farming and tin mining island of Belitung.

Young man kills people sleeping on the footpath while driving under influence. Young man's influential father struggles to silence the police...

A poignant drama set in 1970s Australia about a newly-single father’s efforts to weather the turbulence of change – in his life and in...

Today in France, one in five young people suffers from severe depressive symptoms, and the number of minors visiting psychiatric emergency rooms has...

This short documentary illustrates rural French Canadian life in the early 1940s. The film follows Alexis Tremblay and his family through the busy...

A young woman searching for her birth parents in order to fulfill her sense of identity joins with an organization that fights the bureaucracy...

Corruption, betrayal and vendettas are the focus of this crime drama that stars Julio Diaz as Dado, a man who prefers a quiet life over troubling...

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