Social Issues Movies

In a darkened classroom, the white cracked walls serve as a movie screen. We are in a remote mountain village in Georgia. The light from the...

Naeem, a Bangladeshi migrant worker employed as a street sweeper, initially feels fearful and keeps his distance from the locals. However, his...

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

A trio of beautiful private-duty nurses that practice more than the medical arts must confront underground drug traffickers, racism and murder in...

A portrait of Rita, who claims that her mother was never a mother for her. Rita gives birth to her own five children and forces her mother to take...

In a decaying Soviet-era retirement home, a vibrant group of elders cling to life by staging Shakespeare. Yet loneliness lingers beyond the...

At the consulting service for immigrants at the Avicenne Hospital in suburban Paris, we observe the sorrow and powerlessness of the immigrants who...

Finley and his wife rely on the microchips in their neck to live their lives but they can never kiss again. When Finley openly voices criticism of...

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

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

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

An instructor sees his student's inability to drive is a block tied to his father. He devises a plan to mend their fractured relationship, unlocking...

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

This film illustrates the struggles of Canadian prairies women to achieve a more just and humane society within the farm movement and at large....

"Africa Light" - as white local citizens call Namibia. The name suggests romance, the beauty of nature and promises a life without any problems in a...

A poignant drama set in 1970s Australia about a newly-single father’s efforts to weather the turbulence of change – in his life and in...

Unemotional, restrained cinematographic poem, situated in a wintry and poor suburb of Tehran. A man is dismissed and his lack of prospects for the...

In Casablanca, a group of filmmakers conduct discussions with people about their expectations of, and aspirations for, the emerging Moroccan national...

El Culebra and El Cabesa, a pair of criminals, decide to take a bank at gunpoint, dressed as penitents. The plan is simple: Get in, get the money,...

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