Social Issues Movies

A sheep farmer whose remote and quiet life is disturbed by the arrival of both his lover and his twin sister.

The Oil in My Blood, written as a fable to my daughter Mar, reimagines an oil platform as a sea monster confronting a mermaid. It reflects on...

A revolutionary is sentenced to death for his anti-national activities. And so begins a battle of wits between the prison officer and his comrades,...

Dew is about 2 friends who developed feelings for each other. But they lived in a time when homosexuality wasn't accepted.

Golf never wanted a brother. Bank just wanted to be loved. What grew between them changed both boys forever.

The documentary team follows two happiness agents in their forties who spend a month and a half on the road twice a year, going door-to-door with...

Set in 1920, Inge travels from Germany to rural Minnesota in order to meet the man destined to be her husband.

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...

This short documentary film is a fascinating portrait of urban and rural Quebec in the late 1960s, as the province entered modernity. The collective...

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.

A woman threatens to leave her husband unless he installs a toilet in their home. To win back her love and respect, he heads out on a journey to...

When their mortgage application is rejected by the bank due to insufficient income, a married couple, Rendi and Suci, who work as cleaning service...

Born June 8, 1964, Frank Matter films four "twins", born the same day as him, but in other latitudes. Interweaving their life stories with rich...

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

The story of Feng Shu Guang, that ends up in a small village named Shibawan. Initially a man, wants to help fight with poverty in this area. It...

In France, victims and perpetrators of offenses, misdemeanors, or crimes can meet and talk in secure, supervised settings. Included in the Penal Code...

Samuel, the owner of a very lucrative technology company, is robbed by a violent attacker named Nathan, whom he recognizes as a former employee....

A historical perspective to understand Neoliberalism and to understand why this ideology today so profoundly influences the choices of our...

25-year-old philosophy major Marta faces the ugly truth for many young Italians — a complete lack of career opportunities. While babysitting...

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