Movies: Social issues

Quique el Cuajo, a hustler with half a body affected by cerebral palsy, joins forces with his friend Adolfo, a young mulatto, to create a music studio....

Global pandemics are like prairie thunderstorms. Full of terror and havoc, they eventually pass. Bringing a new baby into the world can also feel like a storm....

In a society where going on holiday is a matter of prestige, one family will do everything they can to maintain their social status, for which they have fought tirelessly for years, by spending ten days locked in their apartment, pretending to be on ...

South Korea's is facing a population crisis, with Seoul at the centre of it. The country’s capital remains the beneficiary of both internal and external migration. Instead, it is in the rural and peripheral areas where low birth rates and the aging p...

The story is set in a Maharashtrian village where the rich act in a barbaric manner towards the poor....

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A young working urban couple is overwhelmed with the birth of a baby girl but parenthood has its own challenges....

Chatting with another recent graduate, a former student activist learns about the controversial origin of a now-beloved campus group. she embarks on a journey through the recent past, weaving conversations with a vast ensemble of young organizers int...

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

The amendment in the law, making it compulsory for one-third of the Gram Panchayat representatives to be women, is not received favourably by the ruling Sarpanch of the village, Thakur Ratan Singh. Although he puts up a front of being in favour of th...

Young people who decide to leave their home to seek opportunities for the future face different difficulties on a daily basis. The inevitable estrangement with family and lifelong friends. The constant lack of understanding, the coldness and individu...

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....

The Lucky Specials are a cover band in a dusty town in southern Africa. Mandla is a miner by day and plays lead guitar for The Lucky Specials by night. He dreams of making it big in the music industry. When tragedy strikes, the band, Mandla and their...

A PSA about Hate Crime. Young Izaak finds out that his father has been yet another victim of Hate Crime, while also learning what to do in this situations....

Is it anyone's business if consenting adults want to pay or accept money for sex? Sex worker and author Maggie McNeill tells her startling tale about the persecution of sex workers based on the false assumption that most of them are exploited victims...

A reflection on the concept of invisibility, narrated by women who clean public spaces in Mexico City. Combining documentary, fiction and still photography, the film is an intimate mosaic of testimonies and experiences that highlight the precariousne...

Golek Garwo is a matchmaking forum, held monthly vis-a-vis in Yogyakarta. Basri (62), a worker who longed for love and one out of hundreds of participants of the event, falls for Musiyem (56), who is also a participant. They then decide to join a mas...

A night in the life of a young adult celebrating her birthday with friends. Amidst the celebration, she encounters uncanny happenings and grows increasingly unnerved by a phantom-like presence. What she doesn’t discover, however, is a parallel existe...