Social Issues Movies

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

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...

The patriarch of a religious Muslim family refuses to accept his intersex child, tearing his family apart.

The social contract: the rules we follow - and some don’t. Breaking Social uncovers the pattern of corruption and kleptocracy erasing the...

A young woman's life is shattered into pieces when her husband slaps her at a party, causing her to question what this relationship stands for.

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

What if you got the chance to build a new society from scratch, what would it look like? Located more than 200 km above the polar circle, the Swedish...

Eli has four children, an unemployed husband and a job with an almost impossible commute. Vale is single and makes ends meet by working in clubs as a...

Chetia, a single mother of an unwanted child, is forced to make a rough living in Torrevieja running balconing bets.

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

A man encounters colorful characters while driving a taxi in Papua New Guinea.

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

Shot over three years, Pariah Dog paints a kaleidoscopic picture of the city of Kolkata, seen through the prism of four outsiders and the dogs they...

José is an unemployed 18-year-old living in a cramped apartment in the slums of Madrid. Marginalized by poverty, José spends his time...

Best friends David and Morten work as gym instructors at Jarle's gym. Jarle is a sadistic small-time criminal whom, together with his son Lars,...

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...

An angry Vietnam veteran leads a Los Angeles street gang in a war on drug dealers.

Mireia has just come out of a toxic relationship that prevents her from enduring physical contact when she is offered the lead role of "Sleeping...