Social Commentary Movies

Girls in my Hometown, released in 1991, is a melodrama dealing with individualism and sacrifice. A young girl has a friend who has just come back...

Ted Evan’s hugely moving and highly creative work applies documentary aesthetics to speculative-fiction subject matter in order to chart the...

In a sprawling city, a man's firm belief that people are innately selfless is severely tested.

Badi Bahen aka President is a 1937 Hindi social romantic drama film (the Bengali version was called Didi and starred several different actors). The...

Set in the Bengali Renaissance of the 1930s and 1940s. A group of young intellectuals get embroiled in the struggle for Indian independence,...

Musical directed by Anwar Kamal Pasha and Murtaza Gilani.

A documentary about the dockworkers in Gothenburg, and the future of the shipping industry in the city.

On a Saturday night in the "City of Love", two sworn enemies are united in their hatred for someone they despise even more than each other: a gay man.

Neera (Apte) is trapped into marrying an old widower Kakasaheb (Date). He is a progressive lawyer with a son and daughter of Neera's age. Neera...

A series of short animated segments, without dialog, explore major characters of modern society, such as the plastic surgeon, the fashion-obsessed...

An unapologetic confrontation of cultural appropriation and everything that’s wrong with hipsters in headdresses.

Questions about celebrating 200 years of independence from Brazil with 300 years of slavery.

In El Salvador, Chelino tells about the indigenous massacre of 1932, of which he survived, while he teaches the melodies of traditional Salvadoran...

The television footage of a wrestling match is employed here as a metaphor for Quebec society. Using voice-over narration, Falardeau presents a...

Transport is a city’s living, beating soul, as lovingly depicted in A Way We Go, a documentary feature by Jacqui Hicks. With an unconventional...

Per Persson left Sweden 40 years ago. In Pakistan he fell in love and became the father of two daughters. Trouble starts when the girls grow up and...

Set in one bedroom over six decades, The Bedroom explores the exciting changes to sex and sexuality in Australia.

A meditation on violence and its recurrence in time. It shows circumstances that make vagrants unable to make their life better. They try to survive,...

Dance film made in Arica with the Tobas Internacional Gigantes Alados group.