Social Issues Movies

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

Luna runs away from home in the middle of the night. In an unexpected encounter with a group of drag queens, she redefines her concept of family.

"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 group of office employees find themselves in a fight for survival against a ruthless local gang after a long week of work.

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

To avoid jail, a tax-dodging businessman is sentenced to a year of community service in a homeless shelter.

Earl Kenneth Kaufmann is the Scary Guy. Banned and kicked out here and there. Because of his looks. A motivation trainer and speaker who campaigns...

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

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,...

By giving non-traditional answers, Pi Pi Lu is seen as a disruptive student by his teacher, Ms. Xu. In her view, only tamed students could be good...

Soni, a young policewoman in Delhi, and her superintendent, Kalpana, have collectively taken on a growing crisis of violent crimes against women....

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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

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...

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