Social Issues Movies

This documentary follows a community action group led by American community organizer and writer Saul Alinsky in Rochester, New York. Together, they...

Using local media footage from the London Borough of Southwark spanning the past 20 years, this documentary discusses complex social issues including...

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.

A night in the life of a young adult celebrating her birthday with friends. Amidst the celebration, she encounters uncanny happenings and grows...

Sometimes, the truth is overridden by self-interest.

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

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...

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

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...

The film chronicles the life of Waluyo, a confident young puppeteer who is fighting to pursue his career. The various obstacles he went through did...

South Korea's is facing a population crisis, with Seoul at the centre of it. The country’s capital remains the beneficiary of both internal and...

In a universe where Clowns are an ethnic minority, recently divorced father-of-one Richard Plews battles against inequality and alcoholism.

On April 14, 2014, the sleepy agrarian town of Chibok, in the North East zone of Nigeria, was thrust into the global spotlight when the terrorist...

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...

A thought provoking short film on Indian farmers told through clay sculptures made from barren farms of the farmers who have committed suicide.

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

In this era, robotic peo- ple making humanized machine, is it a hopeless tragedy, or the beginning of a brave new world?

South Korea's is facing a population crisis, with Seoul at the centre of it. The country’s capital remains the beneficiary of both internal and...