Social Issues Movies

A young woman's life is shattered into pieces when her husband slaps her at a party, causing her to question what this relationship stands for.

Humble and introvert Muharrem lives in a solitary and meager existence of a prayer and sexual abstinence adhering strictly to the most severe Islamic...

When her estranged mother falls into a coma, a self-made single mom grapples with regret and resentment while reflecting on their strained relationshi...

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

José is an unemployed 18-year-old living in a cramped apartment in the slums of Madrid. Marginalized by poverty, José spends his time with his friend...

The alienating and repetitive life of a group of heroin junkies in 1980s Rome.

Best friends David and Morten work as gym instructors at Jarle's gym. Jarle is a sadistic small-time criminal whom, together with his son Lars, purcha...

Soni, a young policewoman in Delhi, and her superintendent, Kalpana, have collectively taken on a growing crisis of violent crimes against women. Howe...

An abandoned child steals to survive and has problems when he decides to steal from the priest who helps him.

The story of August who loses his beloved sister Christina, a former porn star known as The Princess. He adopts Christina's five-year-old daughter Mia...

Paco, the teenage son of a Civil Guard commander in Basque Country, becomes addicted to heroin.

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 chaos,...

Kanao, a courtroom portrait artist, observes crimes, scandals and the decline of Japanese values without passing judgement. As he and his wife endure...

A documentary on the road that tracks the journey by Georgina, an elderly transgender woman forced to cross the sandy peninsula Guajira, on foot, to o...

A portrait of Rita, who claims that her mother was never a mother for her. Rita gives birth to her own five children and forces her mother to take the...

A full-time carer plots a daring heist from the Houses of Parliament, in a bid to thwart devastating welfare reforms known as Independence Credit.

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

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...

An angry Vietnam veteran leads a Los Angeles street gang in a war on drug dealers.