Social Issues Movies

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

As obesity progresses inexorably, Sylvie Gilman and Thierry de Lestrade investigate the causes of this planetary plague and reveal the fight waged in...

Christian Garcia, a fiercely dedicated Latino political organizer, leads a team of young people mobilizing their community for a soda tax. Tested...

Zanskar is a remote kingdom in the northwest Indian Himalaya, where local people are snow-bound for six months of the year. About 10,000 Zanskaris...

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...

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

SPACED OUT written, edited and directed by Priyakanta Laishram is a movie dedicated to all the people who are on the road to recovery from drug...

Ziba and three of her prison cohorts, recently released from a Tehran prison, settle in an out of town doctor's house posing as house sitters and...

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

By observing the technological developments of artificial intelligence in several countries, this film sheds light on the advantages and limits of...

Preschool to Prison is a compelling examination of how the United States public school system is built and operated like prisons. Zero-tolerance...

Fasli is a child born and raised in Kampung Kalo, Lengko Ajang, Manggarai Timur, East Nusa Tenggara. This film is about Fasli and his family; a...

A woman suffering from drug addiction is interned against her will in a clandestine rehabilitation center where she suffers many cases of abuse and...

The amendment in the law, making it compulsory for one-third of the Gram Panchayat representatives to be women, is not received favourably by the...

Finley and his wife rely on the microchips in their neck to live their lives but they can never kiss again. When Finley openly voices criticism of...

A 1973 documentary film from the Central Office of Information about the Liverpool and Bootle Constabulary.

Chetia, a single mother of an unwanted child, is forced to make a rough living in Torrevieja running balconing bets.

In a small commercial harbour in the south of France, two Moroccan sailors are watching over ferries that were abandoned by ship-owners. Young...