Social Issues Movies

In the 1980's, Pilar, an ordinary woman, married, about forty years, discovers that one of their three children are addicted to heroin. After an...

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...

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

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...

Juan Méndez Bernal leaves his house on the 9th of april of 1936 to fight in the imminent Spanish Civil War. 83 years later, his body is still...

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

The demise of airline Swissair in 2001 was a huge blow to Switzerland's economy and to the country's morale. It was a sad day for Swiss history when...

The alienating and repetitive life of a group of heroin junkies in 1980s Rome.

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.

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

A single mother suffers a devastating stroke leaving her teenage daughter and 7-year-old son to care for her, testing the family's strength to hold...

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

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

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

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

To avoid jail, a tax-dodging businessman is sentenced to a year of community service in a homeless shelter.

A trio of beautiful private-duty nurses that practice more than the medical arts must confront underground drug traffickers, racism and murder in...

Bhanwar, a simpleton young man in the rural Rajasthan wants a bride for him but gets duped. Instead of a woman, he is married off to a transgender...

From schools and offices to hospitals and streets, cleaners are working everywhere, tirelessly and modestly. They work hard and keep society running....