Activism Movies

We follow the timid Theo, whose mother stands to lose her disability benefits. Help comes from the effortlessly flamboyant trans woman Kleopatra, a...

Sara writes a harsh blog about the bleak lives of Haredi (Ultra-Orthodox) women. Shulamit is an independent photographer who documents violent...

Through archival footage and testimonies from professors, students, staff, and graduates, the documentary traces the history of the National...

When the killer of an adolescent labor activist is acquitted, journalist Shahbaz Bhatti sees glaring loopholes in the verdict, and begins a quest for...

Activists have been fighting for animal rights for decades. Will they succeed in winning the battle against meat production or will the food industry...

Gowanus Current is a documentary feature film about a neighborhood asking what is truly valuable in their community, and who gets to decide.

In a country that prides itself on democracy, a group of activists, known for chalking messages and holding signs, faces a terrifying escalation:...

Around a fire in the middle of the forest, two former members of the armed anti-capitalist group La Bande à Fasel meet three young activists...

Michael Franti, winner of the San Francisco Foundation 2009 Community Leadership Awards (the Helen Crocker Russell Award) - artist, activist, founder...

An experimental, activist short-film following Quinn, who falls pregnant, but did not have the freedom to choose. So she takes matters into her own...

In a Rio de Janeiro where street skateboarding is banned, a group of skateboarders organize a movement to legalize skateboarding in Square XV.

The documentary follows María Riot, an artist, activist, and sex worker from Argentina, as she develops her photography project “Archivo...

Documentary film about the controversial movement of women seeking ordination in the Roman Catholic Church. More and more women are answering a...

This documentary speaks to local activist groups in the music industry and culture scene to find out why people are driven to fight back and speak...

Claire and Agnes struggle to live their passionate love in 1970s France.

In the midst of a profound social conflict, the director, a blind activist based in Canada, returns to her native Chile to follow five activists who...

Chinese for Affirmative Action is a recipient of the San Francisco Community Leadership Award for being "a champion against discrimination and for...

A Q&A session with the founder of 'Heaux History Project' Erica aka Rebelle.