Social Commentary Movies

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

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

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,...

Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony Kirby, but his wealthy banker father and snobbish...

Devastated by a recent loss, Jayne's perseverance is tested by her nuisance husband as she attempts to complete her jigsaw, but as pieces start...

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

A young tradesman learns that money doesn't necessarily bring happiness. Drama.

Men and women caught up in a downward spiral of corruption, discrimination, poverty and death are the focus of this detective-thriller/social-drama...

As a rural village prepares for its final harvest festival as a luxury building development is greenlit, an ancient threat awakens and Julian must...

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...

Locked out of the school art room, a creative non-binary teen named Frog grapples with anxiety as they seek a new place to eat lunch. Imagination...

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

A young and outgoing African-American boy living under the skies of 1950s Jim Crow Kentucky finds himself lost when he wakes up in the year 2026,...

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

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

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.

The very near future. The interface between mind and machine has been perfected. Nano sensors and transmitters find and attach to neurons, this is...

Brass Tacks was a current affairs programme shown on BBC2 between 1977 and 1988. On this episode called Punk Rock, broadcast on 3rd August 1977, it...

Professor Griggs, teaching at the college, doesn't get paid a living wage; his next door neighbor, successful shoemaker Olsen, has money and...

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