Social Issues Movies

When Yussef is forced to work the night of his daughter's piano recital he is determined to listen to her play at all costs.

Tobias is the new, idealistic priest in a suburb but he soon learns that his flock is quite uninterested in Christianity. However, he befriends...

This is one of the blind spots of the November 2015 attacks, a piece of history that has been ignored and never told: an invisible consequence of...

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.

A reflection on the concept of invisibility, narrated by women who clean public spaces in Mexico City. Combining documentary, fiction and still...

An assistant director investigates the authenticity of a popular autobiographical novel being adapted into a movie.

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

Tjipto Setiyono, 85, is a rickshaw painter. Despite being past his prime, he lives alone in a 3-by-3 meter square boarding room, in which...

Adil is an assistant prosecutor, the only son in a patriarchal family. Currying favor at work in front of the boss, he "excuses" the family abuser in...

Perry makes a wish using the holiday magic given the world he encounters after escaping Foster Care.

A lesbian couple in conservative Japan must fight to stay together when one of them is diagnosed with terminal cancer.

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

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

Paco, the teenage son of a Civil Guard commander in Basque Country, becomes addicted to heroin.

"Africa Light" - as white local citizens call Namibia. The name suggests romance, the beauty of nature and promises a life without any problems in a...

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...

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...

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

Mireia has just come out of a toxic relationship that prevents her from enduring physical contact when she is offered the lead role of "Sleeping...

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...