Social Issues Movies

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

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.

Did you know that you can patent colours, numbers, plants and animals – and that 20% of your genes are patented and owned by private...

Animation and activism unite in this multimedia spoken-word response to police brutality and racial injustice.

Ambar is a young mother who is forced to work in a sand mine after her husband mysteriously vanishes. But what she faces is not just the harshness of...

This film illustrates the struggles of Canadian prairies women to achieve a more just and humane society within the farm movement and at large....

Using original animation, archival footage and personal interviews, this full-length documentary portrays the multiple relationships Canadian Muslim...

This documentary follows a community action group led by American community organizer and writer Saul Alinsky in Rochester, New York. Together, they...

Three women who come from different backgrounds work hard to earn a living in Manila, but realize that they are victims of sexual exploitations. A...

After 11 strangers unite to help a gay youth escape life-threatening violence in Uganda, the unexpected pandemic and conflicting opinions over his...

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

An assistant director investigates the authenticity of a popular autobiographical novel being adapted into a movie.

The day to day life in an establishment for delinquent teenage girls.

Single mother Anna and her four children live in the front-line war zone of Donbas, Ukraine. While the outside world is made up of bombings and...

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...

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...

Eri as a child hides her pain with a determined smile. This leads to an unprecedented change, turning her into a doll. After landing a singing...

When a dark guy meets a fat girl

Corruption, betrayal and vendettas are the focus of this crime drama that stars Julio Diaz as Dado, a man who prefers a quiet life over troubling...

Young man kills people sleeping on the footpath while driving under influence. Young man's influential father struggles to silence the police...