Social Commentary Movies

Collaboration with Amadou, who also produced the soundtrack.

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

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...

A night club singer who is the daughter of a small-town crook is tried and convicted of murder.

A man battling drug addiction is stalked by an ominous masked photographer.

Working at a nightclub in Chengdu, a transgender Chinese woman receives an unexpected visit from her cousin informing her that the mother she has...

Four stories unfold in Jakarta, a big city that feels cold and dehumanizing. Life there strips away meaning, turning people into soulless zombies. In...

CÓRREDOM features a troubled egos race, disputed by 7 characters who, possessed by their rhetoric, lose the focus of the end goal and stop...

A man living with his parents in a low middle-class apartment in Rio de Janeiro coldly stabs them with a razor and then goes to the movies. Marcia, a...

Initially embarking on an unplanned personal filmmaking project, Ilias Boukhemoucha finds himself drawn to the overlooked corners and marginalized...

Awaiting trial for murder, a father’s life falls apart as his connection to the man who attacked his family is revealed.

A 60th anniversary retrospective documentary on the influence and context of the 1962 film, To Kill a Mockingbird.

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

An unapologetic take on the vicious cycle of earning too little and consuming too much.

Winner of the New York LOVES Film Award at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2008. Filmed over the course of nine years, Zoned In traces the remarkable...

An isolated, overweight girl with a penchant for shoplifting, gets pushed from pillar to post as the authorities struggle to know what to do with her.

An interview with Jovanka Jolić discussing her views on global elites, hidden power structures, and the concept of secret knowledge preserved by...

More Dangerous Songs: And the Banned Played On features previously banned songs by the BBC including "Lola" by the Kinks, "Jackie" by Scott Walker...

Disillusioned English banker's wife Mary meets troubled Italian immigrant Bruno, with whom she is captivated by and they set off on a voyage on which...