Social Issues Movies

A short experimental documentary that interrogates how the modernization of parks and playgrounds in Long Branch (a neighbourhood in South Etobicoke...

In battle-ridden Syria, a woman trying to smuggle bread into a blockaded area crosses paths with a soldier on the run.

Walton, the District Attorney, yearns to have children. Soon after defending an author on trial for publishing indecent literature, Walton discovers...

The demise of airline Swissair in 2001 was a huge blow to Switzerland's economy and to the country's morale. It was a sad day for Swiss history when...

The Lucky Specials are a cover band in a dusty town in southern Africa. Mandla is a miner by day and plays lead guitar for The Lucky Specials by...

Since World War II North Americans have invested much of their newfound wealth in suburbia. It has promised a sense of space, affordability, family...

A group of 10 students struggles with poverty and develop hopes for the future in Gantong Village on the farming and tin mining island of Belitung.

Love blooms quietly in the mountains, but when the world around them says no, will A Ren listen to his heart or his heritage?

Five interconnected lives of a transferee, his classmate, the editor-in-chief, an upperclassman, and the principal grapple with their own fears and...

Tobias is the new, idealistic priest in a suburb but he soon learns that his flock is quite uninterested in Christianity. However, he befriends...

Gopi, an engineer, is found in his apartment, dead by hanging. Renuka, his fiancée, wants to uncover the reasons behind his suicide and...

After 11 strangers unite to help a gay youth escape life-threatening violence in Uganda, the unexpected pandemic and conflicting opinions over his...

Juan Méndez Bernal leaves his house on the 9th of april of 1936 to fight in the imminent Spanish Civil War. 83 years later, his body is still...

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

Why are men two or even three times less likely than women to be diagnosed with depression? Why are the figures reversed between the sexes in suicide...

Álex and Virginia, a couple planning to get married, buy an apartment located in a building under construction. When there are only a few...

The story is set in a Maharashtrian village where the rich act in a barbaric manner towards the poor.

Four high school teens are thrown into detention after a fight come together of their love for music and songwriting. However, their newfound bond is...