Social Issues Movies

Today in France, one in five young people suffers from severe depressive symptoms, and the number of minors visiting psychiatric emergency rooms has...

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?

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

This is one of the blind spots of the November 2015 attacks, a piece of history that has been ignored and never told: an invisible consequence of...

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

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

Portrait of Augustinas Baltrušaitis, film and theatre director, as well as actor, who fell into obscurity and has now been relegated to the...

Kanao, a courtroom portrait artist, observes crimes, scandals and the decline of Japanese values without passing judgement. As he and his wife endure...

"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...

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...

Adil is an assistant prosecutor, the only son in a patriarchal family. Currying favor at work in front of the boss, he "excuses" the family abuser in...

Fame driven Ken Dean becomes the subject of a documentary when he attempts to start a pornography company. Following the failure of the company, Ken...

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

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...

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

When Yussef is forced to work the night of his daughter's piano recital he is determined to listen to her play at all costs.

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

In 1936, the sound film had already been around for a decade. Nevertheless, Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977) made another silent film, "Modern Times",...

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