Social Issues Movies

This feature-length documentary by Alanis Obomsawin examines the plight of Native people who come to Montreal searching for jobs and a better life....

A young working urban couple is overwhelmed with the birth of a baby girl but parenthood has its own challenges.

Six poems written by six young prisoners animated to tell their stories, thoughts, fears and hopes.

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

Perry makes a wish using the holiday magic given the world he encounters after escaping Foster Care.

"Fag End" is an astute representation of the metaphorical death of a mother. The movie revolves around a girl named 'Tania', a victim of smoking and...

Ria, a seven-year-old girl growing up in a village, is led by her mother to a place where a group of women from her community await her. Here she is...

Living in a village full of slopes can drive you mad. Those who have climbed them in the old-fashioned way are fully aware of that. What they...

A woman suffering from drug addiction is interned against her will in a clandestine rehabilitation center where she suffers many cases of abuse 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...

Selfhood follows 5 individuals and the difference between their sense of self compared to how they present theirselves to the outside world.

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...

Candace Parker takes a personal look at the past, present and future of Title IX and the drive for equality in sports.

Young people who decide to leave their home to seek opportunities for the future face different difficulties on a daily basis. The inevitable...

This short documentary film is a fascinating portrait of urban and rural Quebec in the late 1960s, as the province entered modernity. The collective...

An inspiring documentary about overcoming homelessness and addiction in the City of Los Angeles.

Directed in 1980 and released in 2013. On the issue of addiction in Iran in the 1980s. Mohsen's father is going to pass away soon due to an illness,...

Social experiment hosted by journalist and presenter Ben Zand in which a group of people come together to try to understand what constitutes sexual...