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 c...

Directed in 1980 and released in 2013. On the issue of addiction in Iran in the 1980s. Mohsen's father is going to pass away soon due to an illness,...

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

Young people who decide to leave their home to seek opportunities for the future face different difficulties on a daily basis. The inevitable estrange...

A young islamic woman who wants to expose the truth about the government's injustice in a patriarchal society.

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

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 Tjipto’s bru...

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

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

Eri as a child hides her pain with a determined smile. This leads to an unprecedented change, turning her into a doll. After landing a singing contrac...

Gu Bo is a beloved father and husband, but also a writer who struggles to be true to his sexual identity.

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

Cut off from his loved ones due to the strict COVID-19 lockdown at the long-term care facility where he lives, a quadriplegic rabbi is filmed by his d...

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 t...

Documentary presenting the theory and application of the Theology of Liberation via interviews to priests from humble parishes in the slums of Lima. A...

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

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 no...