Social Issues Movies

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...

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

In a conservative Armenian family a 16 years old Karine dreams to become a veterinarian, but her family, especially her father, who is a well-known...

In a society where going on holiday is a matter of prestige, one family will do everything they can to maintain their social status, for which they...

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

Why did the series "In Therapy" on ARTE break audience records? Does it reflect the truth of psychoanalysis? From personal quests to collective...

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

Humble and introvert Muharrem lives in a solitary and meager existence of a prayer and sexual abstinence adhering strictly to the most severe Islamic...

Sjaak and Clara founded the very first food bank in the Netherlands in 2002. Since handing over their responsibilities at the food bank, they have...

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

Single mother Anna and her four children live in the front-line war zone of Donbas, Ukraine. While the outside world is made up of bombings and...

An abandoned child steals to survive and has problems when he decides to steal from the priest who helps him.

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

Three women who come from different backgrounds work hard to earn a living in Manila, but realize that they are victims of sexual exploitations. A...

José is an unemployed 18-year-old living in a cramped apartment in the slums of Madrid. Marginalized by poverty, José spends his time...

Candace Parker takes a personal look at the past, present and future of Title IX and the drive for equality in sports.

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

A documentary in which retired industrial workers reflect on the promises and anxieties of retirement. Beginning with the Budd Company’s...

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...